[AccessD] Conditional keep together

Charlotte Foust charlotte.foust at gmail.com
Thu Jan 20 12:34:17 CST 2011


I don't understand quite what the problem is.  Why do you need a page
break at all?  If you set the keep together to first detail, you
should get a page break when you need one.  I would suspect that
something about the grouping you're using isn't quite right.

Charlotte Foust

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Debbie <delam at zyterra.com> wrote:
> I started to put a conditional keep together in code on format. This
> actually crashes Access. Only in the on open event will it work.
>
> I have started experimenting with adding a conditional page break. I can get
> it to work only when I want, but the records still start on page 2. I just
> get a page break in the middle of page 2 rather than moving the first part
> of the records to page 1
>
> Debbie
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jan 20, 2011, at 9:21 AM, "Rocky Smolin" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote:
>
>> Is it a function of how many records there are in the group?  I wouldn't
>> want to hard code a test for a specific data value if I could avoid it.
>>
>> You can, of course, set the keep together property through code, but the
>> question is where to do it?
>>
>> I've never tried this but I'd experiment with the Format event of the
>> group
>> header.
>>
>> Rocky
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Debbie
>> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 6:48 AM
>> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>> Subject: [AccessD] Conditional keep together
>>
>> I have a report with 2 grouping levels. The first group is keep together
>> with first record and the second is keep all records together on one page.
>> 99.9% of the time this is perfect.
>>
>> Now I have the situation where my first keep all records together group
>> fits
>> perfectly on a page all by itself. This means I have a report header,
>> further group header, then a page break. Not until page
>> 2 do I see this first set of detail records because if the keep together.
>>
>> I do not want to set this to keep with first record just to cover this one
>> instance with one user, but I have to admit it is pretty awful. Is there
>> any
>> way to determine that this has happened ahead of time and reset the keep
>> together property?  Better yet only reset it on the group having problems.
>>
>> I can set the keep together, but only on open. By the time I can tell if
>> it
>> is needed, my window of opportunity is lost and I am better off just
>> setting
>> this group to keep together with first record and just be dine with it.
>>
>> Debbie
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
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