Easiest way to add "continued" label ...

[Xprogrammer]

Using CR 8, I have a report with no groupings but sorting implemented. With the "sorts", some records go over some pages. What is the best approach to implement this feature?
Thank you for your assistance.

 

[MalcolmW]

what do you mean "go over" some pages? There are several reasons one could use a "continued" label. In your case, it sounds like your detail section is several lines long, and that it doesn't always fit on one page, or sometimes it has a page break inside it - correct?
Malcolm

 

[dcm]

Xprogrammer: If you did use groupings to achieve the sorting you could suppress the group footer and set the group options to repeat group header on new page. This would mean you could include a formula field in the group header such as:

If InrepeatedGroupHeader then 'continued..'

This would work David C. Monks
david.monks@chase-international.com

http://www.chase-international.com

Accredited Seagate Enterprise Partner

 

[Xprogrammer]

MalcolmW, dcm. Thanks for your response. To clarify, yes the detail section is several lines long, it doesn't always fit on one page. Also, no, I didn't use the grouping functionality. Sorting is accomplished using the Report> Sort records menu functionality. The sorted fields are placed are in the detail section. Thanks again for your response. So how could one implement the suggestion by dcm without grouping. Also the "continued" label is supposed to be the bottom.

 

[MalcolmW]

make up a page footer section that has just a "Continued on next page" label in it.
Suppress this section conditionally, depending on whether it is printing before the end of the detail section has been reached for a given record.
Determine whether the end of the detail section has been reached by setting a boolean variable IsContinued to False at the end of the detail section, and to True in another formula in the beginning of the detail section. Malcolm

 

[Xprogrammer]

Thank you!