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Page footer in child subreport

edited February 2010 in Subreports
Hi,

I would need a page footer in a child subreport. I am using RB 11.05
with D7.
I've seen from previous messages that this is not supported.
I tried using summary band and it works but there is a small problem:
the summary band gets printed very close to the last line of the detail.
I would need it at the bottom of the page.
Is there any smart/quick way to force it to the bottom ?
(i am thinking about placing every detail data in a memo and force the
memo to the heigth of the page, or moving the band by rap but i don't
know if this could work and it is quite complicated anyway..)
Thanks
Bye
Nicola

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  • edited February 2010
    Hi Nicola,


    For ReportBuilder 11 we added the SummaryBand.AlignToBottom property.

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    Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com

    Best Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com
  • edited February 2010

    Hi Nico,

    I've seen the property but it seems disabled ..
    I click but it doesn't get checked ...
    Is there anything that could inibit this ?
    In my summary I've putted an image and I have printheight static (I've
    tried dynamic but the AllignToBottom is still disabled) ...
    Thanks

  • edited February 2010
    Nico,

  • edited February 2010
    Hi Nicola,

    I apologize, I somehow missed that you were in a subreport :).

    The concept of the "bottom of a page" does not exist in a child style
    subreport. These subreports are meant to flow across pages and begin part
    way through a page. If you would like each subreport to be separated by
    pages, I suggest you use a section style subreport instead.

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    Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com

    Best Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com
  • edited February 2010
    Actually this subreport started as section style but I changed it
    to child after seeing this problem:
    in section style subreport it seems that the property "ShiftRelativeTo"
    is disabled ...
    In the main report I have several other child subreports and objects
    (pagebreak and so on).
    I need that this subreport goes in a specific position but I don't
    know how to force it with section style..
    If you can tell me how to achieve this I think I can switch again to
    section style .
    Thanks
    Bye
    Nicola

  • edited February 2010
    Hi Nicola,

    The printing order for a section style subreport is determined by the
    z-order rather than ShiftRelativeTo. As before, since a section style
    subreport begins and ends on its own page, there is no need for a shift
    concept.

    You can adjust the z-order by using the BringForward and SendBackward
    functions.

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    Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com

    Best Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com
  • edited February 2010

    The problem is that this section style subreport should stay
    in a precise position in a sequence of child style, like this:

    subreportchild1
    subreportchild2
    subreportchild3
    sectionstyle1
    subreportchild4

    the child4 must be exactly after the section1 which must be exactly
    after child3...
    How can I specify this sequence with z-order commands ?


  • edited February 2010
    Hi Nicola,

    In this case I would recommend only using section style subreports in the
    main report. Something like the following...

    SectionSubreport1
    Contains Child1, Child2, Child3

    SectionSubreport2

    SectionSubreport3
    Contains Child4

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    Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com

    Best Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com
  • edited February 2010
    Hi Nico,
    Is it possible to cut and paste a subreport ?
    If so I would use this tecnique to transform the report in this way.

  • edited February 2010
    > Is it possible to cut and paste a subreport ?

    Yes (+x, +v)

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    Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com

    Best Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com
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