Brett Barabash
BBarabash at TappeConstruction.com
Mon May 5 16:03:13 CDT 2003
Rocky,
My solution doesn't force a page break between each subreport. It just
keeps the subreports from being split between pages (in which case it would
force a break then).
Now, your second problem was "how do I break to the next page if I am xx
lines from the bottom?" This can be done in the Format event by using the
.NextRecord and .MoveLayout properties. For the purposes of this
discussion, let's assume that you placed the subreport in it's own header
(or footer) and the header was named MyHeader. The code would look
something like:
Private Sub MyHeader_Format(Cancel As Integer, FormatCount As Integer)
If Me.Top > 12000 Then
'Reformat output in next section
Me.NextRecord = False
Me.MoveLayout = True
Me!srptMySub.Visible = False
Else
Me!srptMySub.Visible = True
End If
End Sub
Pick whatever arbitrary number you want as a page break threshold. The Top
property is in Twips, so multiply Inches by 1440 to get the number (e.g.
10.5 * 1440 = 15120).
The only gotcha to look out for is the CanShrink property. If you have this
set to True for the section, and you hide the section's contents (i.e. the
subreport), you will be caught in an infinite loop because every subsequent
formatting event will take place in the exact same position!
-----Original Message-----
From: Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software [mailto:bchacc at san.rr.com]
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 2:26 PM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Sub-Reports and Paging
Brett:
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 <mailto:BBarabash at tappeconstruction.com>
To: 'accessd at databaseadvisors.com' <mailto:'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 <mailto:bchacc at san.rr.com> - Beach Access Software
To: AccessD at databaseadvisors.com <mailto: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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