Subreport always displays (at least) a blank area

[UHsoccer]

I use the subreport to accumaulate information, I do not want to print anything in it.
It still uses space on the output in the form of a blank box. Is there a way to "hide" the blank box. I discovered that when I suppress the printing of a subreport it also suppresses the execution of it, so that is not the answer.

Thanks

 

[JC442]

Hi UHsoccer,
To suppress your sub report, try this:
go to the section expert and select the section with the subreport. Select insert, this gives a new section. put the sub report in the new section and format the section "Supress" or "Hide".
Hope this is useful...

 

[UHsoccer]

The problem is that if you Hide or suppress the section with the subreport, it does NOT execute the subreport.
I need to execute the subreport, but even if hiding every section in the subreport, it still displays a rectangular blank space. That "blank space" has a border outlined around it

 

[lbass]

There are two things you can do that will minimize the space, but not wholly remove it:

1-In design mode, drag the bottom border of the subreport up so that the height of the subreport is minimized. Also remove the borders by right clicking on the subreport->format subreport-> borders and change the lines to "none."

2-Format the section above the one in which the subreport is located to "Underlay following sections."

-LB

 

[cord]

URGENT... I have encountered a related problem. Basically my setup is this:

group header 4: subreport with values coming into the main report

group footer 4: main values from the subreport (the values show 0 unless I have the subreport in the header)

I managed to hide the header rows completely (very small space in between footer rows) by turning off "can grow", but now I need to supress the footer when a certain condition is met, and once I do that, I get spaces in between the remaining footer rows, caused by the header, which in some cases becomes quite a large space, depending on how many rows were supressed in each section. If I try to apply the same supress condition to the header, I lose my values.

If anyone has any idea on a way around this, I would appreciate it very much as I am going crazy with these spaces!!

 

[UHsoccer]

I had some success with changing the "Underlay following section" option and the "Cannot grow" setting.
Are you hiding the section with a formula?
Try to just hide them and see whether that makes any difference

 

[Sartorius]

I had a very similar issue. The way I got around it was :

1. Create a Shared Numbervar (e.g. TotalCost) on the subreport in the formula section, and added it to the subreport.
2. Pull the Shared Numbervar onto the main report.
3. For the subreport > section expert > Hide (Drill Down ok)

All my values were then "pulled" through to the main report . and no blank spaces were printed.

Hope this helps.

-Sart