RAP 10.07 - Using footer or groupfooter to print a full page of information
Hi,
I have a report which prints contractdetails - one page per customer (at
least one page, could be more if many detail lines). Following this page(s)
there should be one full page with legal contract text (static text). My
problem is to make the footer/groupfooter text use a full page.
What happens is that the static text uses a bottompart of the clean page and
not the full page. I have tried a lot of different combinations of static
and dynamic bands and top or bottom anchored text. But i dont manage to
change this behaviour. (If I put the legaltext in the groupheader everything
works, but this is very unpractical since the first page should always
contain address information (for post handling))
(The report is originaly converted from an earlier version of RB, but has
been used for a long time successfully in 10.07 format.)
Do I have to redesign the whole report (due to hidden error), it is big, or
is this normal behviour which can/or not be fixed?
Thanks for all help,
Hans Christian
I have a report which prints contractdetails - one page per customer (at
least one page, could be more if many detail lines). Following this page(s)
there should be one full page with legal contract text (static text). My
problem is to make the footer/groupfooter text use a full page.
What happens is that the static text uses a bottompart of the clean page and
not the full page. I have tried a lot of different combinations of static
and dynamic bands and top or bottom anchored text. But i dont manage to
change this behaviour. (If I put the legaltext in the groupheader everything
works, but this is very unpractical since the first page should always
contain address information (for post handling))
(The report is originaly converted from an earlier version of RB, but has
been used for a long time successfully in 10.07 format.)
Do I have to redesign the whole report (due to hidden error), it is big, or
is this normal behviour which can/or not be fixed?
Thanks for all help,
Hans Christian
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Comments
Try placing the legal information in a Region inside the group footer and
set the region to KeepTogether. This way when the group footer runs out of
room on the page, it will be forced to print to the next page.
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Regards,
Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
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Nico Cizik
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thanks for the tip, but it does not work
Just a part of the legeal text get printed at the bottom part of the page.
All bands are set to dynamic so i dont understand why. Any other
suggestions.
Hans
In this case the group footer should not be a dynamic height band. This is
to ensure it take up more space than is left on the page.
In my testing the region keep together seemed to function correctly. Below
is the test application I used.
http://www.digital-metaphors.com/tips/TestRegionKeepTogether.zip
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Regards,
Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com
Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com
thanks that worked, but I have two group footers; 1st should be printed at
the bottom of the page and 2nd group footer should print legal text on
following full page(2nd page) (as you have helped me with).
I have problem getting the 1st group footer printing at bottom of the (1st)
page. It get either printed following the detailband (with static distance)
or at the start of next page, when experimenting with "PrintPosition" or
"BottomOffset" - I use "static" PrintHeight for both group footers.
Hans
(PS. I have not teste your app - our delphi guru is ill so I have no access
to it, I am using the RAP environment only i.e. *.rpt files )
Sorry, I lost track of this thread. Please see my answer below for your new
thread.
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Regards,
Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com
Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com