Forcing a page break

rbuser

(using RBPro 5.56 and D5)

I'm trying to follow the Tech-Tips instructions on forcing a page
break, but must be missing something.

I've created a Group with its break on a custom field (an unchanging
label) and set New Page to True. I want to generate a new page for
each new record (this is a simple traversal of a single table, but
there is no field that is guaranteed to be different from record to
record. The only thing I can count on is the record number (recno)).

In the OnTraversal event handler for the pipeline I assign the value
of the table's current recno to a private variable, and pass that
variable to aBreakValue in the OnGetBreakValue event. That does not
generate a new page.

What am I missing?

(Side Note: It's not clear in the Tech-Tips whether the value assigned
to aBreakValue needs to change from record to record in order to force
the page break. The example doesn't indicate that it does, which
makes you wonder if the simple act of assigning a value to aBreakValue
is all that is needed, still....)

Thanks,

Gene Weinbeck
gene@FundRaiserSoftware.com
Professional Support Software

rbuser

I have solved this problem by stretching the band height so that it occupies
the size of the page, or if multiple bands so that the sum of the band
heights = the page height and that works perfectly. If the additional bands
are subreport bands you can either make the main band the size of the page
and place the subreport bands on top or size each such that the cumulative
height is the page height.

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Regards,

John

www.barjohn.com
johng@barjohn.com

rbuser

"John Griffith" wrote:


Of course.

At first, I tried stretching the GroupFooterBand, then realized that
you meant the Detail band - no need for a group at all.

Thanks for your help.

Gene Weinbeck
gene@FundRaiserSoftware.com
Professional Support Software

rbuser