how to control printing near bottom of page

[wayne52]

I program for a web reporting service bureau. Our programming environment is SQL Server and Foxpro. We are converting our reports from the Foxpro report writer to Crystal 9.

The Foxpro report writer has a property/setting for report groups that says, in effect, "Start new group on new page when less than xxx inches". This property prevents the report from starting a new group header at the very bottom of the page.

I cannot figure out how to accomplish the same thing in Crystal. Does anyone know how?

The Crystal "keep together" property does not seem to do it. It seems to just keep all lines of a section header/footer together on the same page. What I need is to keep the section header on the same page as the detail, but only do this when the section starts a specified distance from the bottom of the page.

Any comments / help are appreciated.

 

[jpaars]

wayne52,

I actually just asked this question in another forum. To my knowledge you can't control it as easily as you can in Foxpro.

Fortunately, people here were able to help me creatively get around the problem.

Check it out here: Controlling page breaks in 8.5 and see if it helps.

Good luck,
James

 

[wayne52]

jpaars,

Thanks for your response. I see how the work-around offered for your problem works. It will help in some cases for our reports.