Suppressing footerband until Groupfooter is printed?

rbuser

Hi,

I have a report where I would like to suppress the printing of the
FooterBand until the groupFooterBand has printed. I tried to set
PrintOnFirstPage = False. This worked fine when there were several pages,
but not so fine there only was one. I tried to handle it by using the
Visible property but this dident work either as it then renders no space for
the footerband which was not what I wanted (this is a formular where the
bottom of the all pages is reserved for special information printed in the
Footerband, but should only be printed on the last page)

digitalmetaphors

The report engine will look when the page starts to see if it should reserve
space at the bottom for the page footer. In your case, setting the
visibility won't work. What you can do is use the group footer band to print
what you want to show in the page footer. But to draw part of the group
footer at the bottom, you can shift the resulting draw commands as shown in
this simple demo:

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/tips/DrawPageFooterOnlyAfterGroup.zip


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors