Suppress Page Footer when no Report Header...

[biandinfosec]

Any suggestion for getting the page footer fields to print based on the following report configuration?

RHa - blank
RHb - SR1 - subreport
PH - blank - suppressed
Groups 1- 8, including details, GHs, GFs - main groups of the main report.

RF - SR2 - subreport in report footer
PF - Common footer for all 3 report areas - SR1, Main, and SR2

There are some items there that should only print when SR1 print, or when Main report print, or when SR3 print.

Any thouhgts on how I can get these fields to print as needed based on when these other reports prints? Here is an example:

Page 1 -infomation from SR1 - Page footer should have unique_text1 and page N of M
Pages 2-4 - information from Main report - Page footer should have unique_text2 and Page N of M
Pages 5-9 - information from SR2 - Page footer should have Page N of M and unique_Text3

And when one section is absent, their unique_texts should be absent as well, but page NofM should continue to print.
Note:someof the unique text are not from a db, they are free static texts
any thoughts should be appreciated.
Thank you.

 

[synapsevampire]

Consider using shared variables.

For instance, in a section prior to running the subreport set a shared variable, such as:

whileprintingrecords;
Shared boolean sub1:=false

Then in the subreport place the following:

whileprintingrecords;
Shared boolean sub1:=True

Now you can conditionally suppress based on this variable, as in:

whileprintingrecords;
Shared boolean sub1;
sub1

Here I'm using a boolean, so if the subreport ran, the variable will be true, otehrwise false.

Hopefully this helps.

-k