printing full page of details with a footer

[finglem]

Hi Folks

Am I correct in thinking that if you have expressions in the page footer of your report then the report file will always account for the amount of space assigned to the footer even if you use print whens to display the expressions on the last page only

ie if there are more details than fit on one page, there is a blank space where the page footer would be if it didn't go over onto another page?

Thanks

 

[KenWMurphy]

Not really sure what you are asking but try this:

Create a report and set your page footer up so it uses up most of the page. You don't have to put anything in there. Now run the report and you will see a whole bunch of blank space used up for the page footer. In other words, your detail band will only be as big as the header and footer allow.

 

[finglem]

Thanks Ken

What I am saying is that I want to print report totals off at the end of a report at the bottom of the last page only.

I can't use the summary band as the totals could appear halfway up the page and if I use print when _pageno = _pagetotal then if the details go over to more than one page there is a blank space at the bottom of every page except the last that could take more details.

Does the report file kind of reserve the space in the footer even if you do not want to display anything in there until the last page is printed?

 

[jimstarr]

I don't see a straightforward way to do this.

If you know how many detail lines print on a full page you can append enough blank records to your input table to force the last page to be full, or close to full. Then print your totals in a Summary Band.

Jim