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Topic: Detecting Group Footer Section Posted: 10 Jan 2012 at 9:29am
I have a report where I'm putting a sub-report into a Group Footer and it is configured to always begin printing on a new page. I have a formula that displays some text in my Page Header and want to modify it so that it will conditionally display something different when the page contains the Group Footer sub-report rather than the rest of the main report detail.
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Posted: 11 Jan 2012 at 4:13am
What I have done in the past to accomplish this is to make sure the Group footer has at least three sections (GF 1a,1b,1c). In group footer 1a you will have a variable declaration that can be something like:
whileprintingrecords;
global numbervar nSubreportHeader:=1;
Be sure GF 1a is suppressed and set the Paging New Page After to ON.
In GF 1b, put your subreport.
In GF 1c, place another variable declaration:
whileprintingrecords;
global numbervar nSubreportHeader:=0;
Suppress GF 1c and, if necessary (which I believe it would be), set the Paging New Page After to ON.
Now, create two Page Headers A and B. Let A be for your regular detail and B for your subreport. Set the suppression of section A to:
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Posted: 11 Jan 2012 at 4:36am
Thanks, FrnhtGLI. Based on my past experience with Crystal, I suspected some sort of hack like this might be necessary, but it definitely did the trick! It turn out to be a bit simpler in the sense that I didn't need to split the page header into multiple sections. I just referenced the global variable in my formula and used an If-Else condition to determine the appropriate text to display.
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