Disapearing Subreport

[mjbp]

I'm developing a report that has numerous subreports, 4 in the group header and 4 in the details section. I'm suppressing these reports when they are blank by using seagate's suggested approach... insert a duplicate subreport in a section above the original subreport, pass the isNull check for a single field in the duplicate to the main and then suppress the entire section of the original subreport if the duplicate check returns null. All of this works fine.

Unfortunately I am now having a formatting problem. Depending upon the way I size the section containing the duplicate subreports( used for suppression ) some of the third or 4th (original )subreports do not print. If it's too small then the fourth reports don't print and if it's too large then the third reports don't. It seems as if the subreports are being pushed off the page by the repetition of the section containing the duplicate subreports.

I've tried making the duplicate subreports and their section as small as possible. I've tried making that section underlay the following sections. Still no luck.
Any suggestions??? I'm stumped!!!

Thank you so much!

 

[FowlerConsulting]

Try the can grow feature?
Steven Fowler
steven_m_fowler@yahoo.com

http://www.fowlerconsulting.com

 

[mjbp]

Yes, I have selected 'can grow' for each of the original subreports, and deselected it for each of the duplicate subreports used for suppression. I've tried it with 'can grow' selected for the duplicate subreports but this didn't affect anything.