Can't suppress main report footer containing subreport, when subreport is suppressed

[PhilB2]

When my subreport group header (the only non-suppressed section in the subreport) is suppressed via a suppression formula, the main report footer containing the subreport is not suppressed, even though Suppress Blank Section is checked in the main report footer Section Expert.

Evidently, the footer is not considered blank when, in the subreport itself, the group header is suppressed.

Would one solution be to set up a variable in both reports, give it a value in the subreport when the subreport suppresion formula is true, and pass the variable back to the main report to be used in the suppression formula for the main report footer?

 

[PhilB2]

The result of the non-suppression is a narrow (top-to-bottom) blank area. I've minimized the width, because the subreport can grow, so the extra space is barely noticeable, but I'd still like to figure out how to eliminate it entirely.

 

[PhilB2]

I read a post from '04. All I had to do was, under the format subreport tab under format (for the subreport), check Suppress Blank Subreport.