Parts of Details to Print Report on many pages

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Leila Eng

Good day Everyone,

Current project is to create a db with highly detailed
reports. One report looks like a mask/template that must
be the same whether a single or multiple page report. (As
if a preprinted form.) All sections will print. It is
desired for each section to print with a certain
designated space on the report. The header is fine. It is
the detail and footer sections that are harder to
resolve. The detail section has strong potential of being
long with details, thus pushing the footer onto following
pages. Would like to find a way to print only a section
(A) of the details that will fit inside the allocated
space on paper, print another section (B) of the details
on page 2, print another section (C) of the details on
page 3, etc. and have the header and footer stay put on
all pages. The header information will stay the same on
all pages. The footer will most likely stay the same, but
like the details may be longer and will need to scroll to
next page.

Any ideas and/or suggestions on accomplishing this
objective? Many thanks and great appreciation in advance.
 
I think what you want to accomplish can be done by having
a page header and a page footer that can not shrink or
stretch.
Once you get these looking like you want than make the
detail section which should be allowed to stretch as
ncessary.
If a summarization is needed for the detail data you cna
have a report footer as well which will show as if it is
detail data.
Hope this helps.
Fons
 
Fons, thanks for reply.

I believe I've tried this route to no avail. Header and
footer were set as desired, however the details still
pushed the footer onto next page. Perhaps there is
another avenue to try?
 
If you set the detail band shrink and grow properties to no
than the bands stay at the same size. There must be some
other properties that are set . Can you give me more
details?
Fons
 
Fons,
Page header and footer have Can Grow/Shrink properties
set to No. At the bottom of header is the start of a
handful of columns. Within these colums, they are
designated as unbound for free text and others to contain
numerical values, yet these must align themselves for
rows. A subreport was created to populate these columns;
depending on the column, unbound areas Can Grow, set to
Yes, Can Shrink, No; numerical fields Can Grow/Shrink set
to No.
I must be missing a big something, if this suppose to be
easy.
 
So I guess there are column titles in the lower part of
the page header, and in the detail band you have just one
subreport where the data textboxes line up with the column
tiltes in the page header?
In this case I would set the detail band in the main
report shrink and stretch properties to yes.
Now in the subreport did you create a header/footer or
anything besides the detail band?
I have included my email above, so if you wish you may
contact me directly so I do not have to go looking for teh
responses to this posting.
Hope this helps a little.
Fons
 
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