[AccessD] Sub-Reports and Paging

MessageBrett:

Thanks for your reply.

I don't want to force a page break between each sub-report.  Sometimes they're only one line.  so they need to all flow together unless it's close to the bottom of the page.  In that case the header text (4-6 lines) gets split over two pages (sometimes in the middle of the line horizontally!) and sometimes it will do this to a detail line.  

Any idea how to 1) prevent that and 2) to force a page break when close to the bottom of the page but not page break when in the sub report starts in the middle of the page?

Thanks and regards,

Rocky

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Brett Barabash 
  To: 'accessd at databaseadvisors.com' 
  Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 10:22 AM
  Subject: RE: [AccessD] Sub-Reports and Paging


  Rocky,
  Normally, I create a section for each subreport.  This allows me full control over the page breaks:
  - In the Sorting And Grouping box, type ="My Section" (call it whatever you want, extra points for being descriptive), and set Group Header = Yes.  This will create a report header where you can place your subreport.
  - In the Report Header property sheet, set Keep Together = Yes.  Don't forget to set your Can Grow and Can Shrink properties.
  - Voila!  Access will not split a subreport in this section between 2 pages.  Plus, if you want to force a page break at the start of a subreport you can easily do that by setting the section's Force New Page property.

  P.S. Access allows up to 10 headers and 10 footers per report.  They can be referred to using the Me.Section property using the following indices:
  Me.Section(5) - Group header # 1
  Me.Section(6) - Group footer # 1
  Me.Section(7) - Group header # 2
  Me.Section(8) - Group footer # 2
  ...
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software [mailto:bchacc at san.rr.com] 
    Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 9:49 AM
    To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
    Subject: Re: [AccessD] Sub-Reports and Paging


    Dear Rocky:

    Perhaps you could put an invisible page break between each sub-report.  Then in the OnOpen event of the report, Dcount the records in each of the eight sub-reports and estimate the height of the sub-report from the sub-report's report header plus the number of detail records.  Then make the page break visible to separate the sub reports.

    Of course since one of the fields in the detail record 'can grow' and does, it's going to be an estimate at best.  Also, this means potentially a lot of white space on a page. Nah, that won't really work well.  You need to know where you are on the page during the printing of the sub-report and page when it gets close to the bottom.

    Maybe someone else has an idea.

    With my very best regards for you and your family,

    Rocky Smolin
    Beach Access Software

      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software 
      To: AccessD at databaseadvisors.com 
      Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 5:18 PM
      Subject: [AccessD] Sub-Reports and Paging


      Dear List:

      I have a report that consists of eight sub reports.  Each sub-report can be of a different length.  Each sub-report has a report header with some descriptive text.  

      The problem is that the main report page breaks in odd places sometimes even cutting a line of the subreport in half horizontally!

      I can, of course, insert an invisible page break between each sub-report and make it visible if I'm close to the bottom of the page.  But I don't know how to know, during the printing of the sub-report, where I am on the main report.

      Anybody got any ideas?

      MTIA,

      Rocky Smolin
      Beach Access Software



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