Suppressing the first group on a page

[Jww193]

Hi All,

I've been trying to suppress the first goup on N groups on a page with little success (GH2). I put a formula in the page header set to "Yes", then I Suppress the GH2 if the value = yes. The first detail line resets the formula to no, so that from then on the group should print. Seems like it should work. But....
I display the formula in the page hdr and the group header and they both say yes but the group header is not suppressed! What's more strange is that If i resize the GF1, section sometimes it suppreses and sometimes it doesn't. It seems to me that there is a timing problem going on.

Any suggestions?

 

[stormtrooper]

If you want to suppress the first group shouldn't you be using gh1?

 

[Jww193]

If you want to suppress the first group shouldn't you be using gh1?

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I guess I should rephrase the question, I want to suppress the first occurrence of GH2 on a page.

Yes there is a GH1 and it is not suppressed. What I am doing is putting the GH1 and Gh2 group names in the page header, after which comes a line of headings.

The problem with this is that when groups change more than one a page, you need to display the group name.

I like to have the group names followed by a heading line for that section. So you also show the GH2, but only when it's not the first group on the page. Otherwise the heading repeats twice. I can of course format the section to spit a new page in GF2, but this causes a lot of unnecessary white space for small groups.

 

[lyanch]

You may want to move the "no" from the detail to a second GH2 section. There may be a little "piece" of a detail printing that sets it to yes after the report header.

You can do it all in the suppression formula for the new section:

value = false;
true

That should eliminate your sizing/timing problem.

Lisa

 

[Jww193]

Thanks for all the Posts everyone. I added the reset formula to the page footer as well and it seemed to fix the timing problem.