Suppressing blank information

rbuser

At the top of a report I have:

Name
Address1
Address2
City, State Zip

It currently prints a blank line for Address2 if there is no info in that
field.

How do make City, State Zip print right below Address1 if there is no
Address2

TIA,
Rob

digitalmetaphors

Supress the visibility of the field if there is no data. ie.

procedure TForm1.Address2Print(Sender: TObject);
begin

Address2.Visible := not(ppReport1.Pipeline['Address2'] = '');

end;

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Cheers,

Alexander Kramnik
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Thanks for the quick response;

This seems to behave the same. It already printed nothing where Address2 was
to go. The problem is there is a space between Address1 and City, i.e:

John Doe
123 Main St.

Washington, D.C. 20010


What I want is:

John Doe
123 Main St.
Washington, D.C. 20010

I am just trying out the demo and have probably missed something easy. Is
there a setting I need for my CityStateZip field that indicates to move up?



"Alexander Kramnik (Digital Metaphors)" wrote

digitalmetaphors

There are two options for supressing that space. One is to manually move up
the other elements (City, State, Zip) when the Address2 field is empty. The
other options is to place a Memo component instead, set it to Strech, and
build the address string. ie

lsAddress := Pipeline['Name'] + #10#13;
lsAddress := lsAddress + Pipeline['Address1'] + #10#13;
if (Pipeline['Address1'] <> '') then
lsAddress := lsAddress + Pipeline['Address2'] + #10#13;
lsAddress := lsAddress + Pipeline['City'] + ', ' Pipeline['State'] + ' '
Pipeline['Zip'] + #10#13;

ppMemo1.Lines := lsAddress;

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Cheers,

Alexander Kramnik
Digital Metaphors

digitalmetaphors

You can also take a look at Demo 33 in the main Reports demo in
Rbuilder/Demos/Reports.

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Cheers,

Alexander Kramnik
Digital Metaphors

"Alexander Kramnik (Digital Metaphors)" wrote

rbuser

Thanks that works great.

Sorry to bother you but I have one other problem. The space between the
lines in the memo seems very large. I tried to adjust this using the
leading property, but do not see any difference. I have used values
from -.25 to -1000 with no noticable difference. There is no mention in the
help what the units of the number is (twips?)

-Rob
"Alexander Kramnik (Digital Metaphors)" wrote

rbuser

digitalmetaphors

The Leading property is in report units. There is a mamimum negative value
past which the Leading setting will be ignored (when the text starts to
overlap) so it is possible that -0.25 is too much.

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Cheers,

Alexander Kramnik
Digital Metaphors