How to keep a summary band together or how to create a "dynamic footer"?

rbuser

Hello,

I have another very special problem with RB 12.04 Ent. and I try to explain:

I want to make a "dynamic footer". On the first pages of the report I want
to print a small footer and only on the last page there is a higher footer.
Because Footer.PrintHeight is always phStatic I tried three different
solutions but nothing really works. Maybe you have some answers for my
questions.

1. Solution: Summary band on bottom
It's easy. A small footer on every page and on last page a summary band with
AlignToBottom = true. My problem is that I don't want to have a page break
in summary band. The complete summary (with dynamic height) must be print on
the last page. Something like summary.keeptogether = true. How is this
possible?

2. Solution: Footer only on last page
Because I had no success with first solution I tried to print the footer
band only on last page. But I only fount "Print on first page" and "Print on
last page". Is there any way to print the footer only on last page?

3. Solution: Forcing a page break
Than I went back to solution 1. I tried to force a page break, when there is
not enough space for summary band, but I failed. Can you please post a small
code example how to calculate the space between the actually position and
the beginning of the footer?

A lot of questions, I know. Thank you in advance for any help.

Kind regards,
Gerd Brinkmann
invent GmbH

nicocizik

Hi Gerd,

I would stay solution 1. If I understand correctly, if there is not
enough room to fit the dynamic summary band on the last page of the
report, you would simply like to move to the next page? If this is the
case, try placing a KeepTogether subreport inside the Summary band and
place all the information to be displayed in there.

rbuser

Hello Nico,

I tried it with a Region, contianing all elements I want to print in the
summary band. There are no ShiftRelativeTos and no stretch=true in the whole
summary band. Then I set Region.KeepTogether = true and it doesn't works.
Firts part of summary band on the second last page and the rest of the
summary band on the last page.

The only solution I found is to set summaryband.PrintHeight = phStatitc.
This works but it's not so nice, because sometimes there are empty lines on
summaryband.

I think there is a problem with RB and page break. Let us discuss this in
the other post. The problem "dynamic footer" is closed.

Thank you very much.
Kind regards,
Gerd Brinkmann
invent GmbH

rbuser

On 26-7-2011 22:10, Gerd Brinkmann wrote:
I have the same problem. The definition of the band is 'Print on last
page of the report'. So in my opinion parts of the summary-band should
never be printed on 2 (or more) pages. Maybe if the summary in total is
to big for a single page, but that never happens. Every summary-band I
use is max 10% of the page-height.
There should be no need for a 'KeepTogetherBand'. It's implied (see the
help).

nicocizik

Hi Ronald,

Definition of the TppSummaryBand from our help:

"The summary band prints at once at the end of the report."

ReportBuilder does not have the concept of a Keeptogether band. If you
would like to keep a number of components together, you need to use a
specific control such as a Subreport or Region.

rbuser

On 17-8-2011 17:46, Nico Cizik (Digital Metaphors) wrote:
Hi Nico,

I think I wanted to read 'Last page' where the help states 'End of the
report'. I tried a subreport but at the end I implemented my own
solution in Rap. It is working fine now.

Best regards,

Ronald