Suppress Group Header when top of page

[cspuckett]

I have two groups in my report. Let's call them Company (group 1) and Division (group 2), with detail division records in the main report.

Group 2 Header is blank, but I want to leave it in because it provides a nice visual break between the Group 2 footer subtotal and the start of the next set of Detail records.

However, I want to suppress the Group 2 Header if it is the very first line on the page. Because the number of detail lines can change, the Group 2 Header could be the first line on page 3, page 5, or never. It just seems to happen enough times to where I'd like to conditionally suppress it.

Any thoughts? I can probably figure it out if I have a line count, but I was wondering if there was another way?

 

[lbass]

Create two formulas:

//{@true}:
whileprintingrecords;
booleanvar flag := true;

//{@false}:
whileprintingrecords;
booleanvar flag := false;

Place {@true} in the page FOOTER, and place {@false} in the group #1 header, the detail section and in the report header.

Then go into the section expert->group header #2->suppress and enter:

whileprintingrecords;
booleanvar flag;
flag = true; //note no colon

-LB