4 part printing (was printing 3 copies + 1)

rbuser

Hi Nico

Due to a change of requirement the solution to the previous question wont
work. That assumed for example that when printing three copies of a 2 page
(d1) and a 1 page (d2) document the customer wanted the following page order
d1 p1, d1 p2, T&Cs,
d1 p1, d1 p2, T&Cs,
d1 p1, d1 p2, T&Cs,
d2 p1, T&Cs,
d2 p1, T&Cs,
d2 p1, T&Cs

In turns out that what they want is effectively 4 part printing ie
d1 p1, d1 p1, d1 p1, T&Cs,
d1 p2, d1 p2, d1 p2, T&Cs,
d2 p1, d2 p1, d2 p1, T&Cs

Without the T&Cs its easy - just set collate false and copies 3.
I tried putting the T&Cs into a section subreport in the footer but it
doesnt print.
How can I do this?

Regards
Paul

nicocizik

Hi Paul,

This unfortunately is not something that can be automatically done in
ReportBuilder. I believe as a starting point you will need to find a way to
separate document 1 into 2 separate documents. As you mentioned, the Terms
and Conditions page is the issue. Once you split each document page into
its own section subreport, you may be able to add a section subreport to the
bottom of each one containing the T&C's.

If none of this works, we may have to re-visit the possibility of creating
separate reports and piecing the print jobs together in code to give you the
report you are after.

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Regards,

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

rbuser

Hi Nico

to

Separating documents is easy

split each document page into
the

I cant imagine how to split the document into pages - the data has to be
rendered to the printer canvas before the page break is determined?

the

Again page breaks are the issue.

Is there any way I can force a section subreport print in the footer or be
triggered after the footer?

Paul

wont

nicocizik

Below is an example of what I mean by splitting the document into multiple
print jobs. After further research, this is the only way to get the
behavior you are after.

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/tips/SeparatePagesIntoPrintJobs.zip

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Regards,

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

rbuser

Nico

Thanks for your demo. How can I turn potentially multi-page reports into
multiiple single page reports in order to do what you suggest?

Regards
Paul

nicocizik

Hi Paul,

If these reports are dynamically sized, this could be tricky. I would
suggest perhaps generating the report beforehand to find out how many pages
each document is, then using this information, try logically splitting the
document into more than one report. This can be done in a number of ways
including changing the search criteria of the dataset.

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Regards,

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

rbuser

Hi Nico

This is not possible because each data line can be a different height. Is
there any way or rendering it to a canvas and then accessing that -eg
produce a preview then manually control printing it page by page?

Regards
Paul

nicocizik

Hi Paul,

If you are able to print each page in the report, you could possibly try
something like demo 124 in the \RBuilder\Demos\1. Reports\... directory by
rearranging the page list to meet your needs. You can also try printing
your report to memory then rearranging the pages before they are printed
like in the following example. If you are unable to get any of these
working the way you need, you will need to re-visit my first example of
separating your reports into separate pages. As I mentioned, this will be
tricky and you may need to rethink the way you are retrieving data for each
report.

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/tips/SpreadSheetStyle.zip


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Regards,

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