Supress blank section doesn't work

[jenlion]

I've had this problem over and over. I have a page header with a subreport that is frequently blank. I split the page header and put the subreport in PH-b. I tell PH-b to supress blank sections. I tell the subreport details section (the only section not supressed outright) to supress blank sections.

If there is no data for the subreport, I want the page header to be smaller. Instead, I get the big white space for the subreport anyway.

What am I missing??

 

[kskid]

In Crystal 8.5, I have a stripdown version of the subreport in PH-a to pass me a shared variable.

In the subreport in PH-a

shared booleanvar subsuppress := false;
If isnull(table.linkid) then true

I use the shared variable in PH-b Format Section -> Suppress x+2

shared booleanvar subsuppress;
subsuppress

Cheers,

-LW

 

[jenlion]

I had tried something similar ... I had forgotten that the shared vars have to go *before* the area you are trying to suppress. thanks!