I have a simple report which is grouped by customer showing their orders.

Customer name etc shown in Group Header.
The orders are shown in the Detail section.

The page footer has a tear off part, which I only want to print on the first page of each group.  ie - 1 per customer.
Easy peasy you'd think.

In the group header suppression code I have the following..........

Shared BooleanVar TearOffPrinted;
TearOffPrinted := false;
false;  //DON'T SUPPRESS THE HEADER

In the page footer I have the following...............

Shared BooleanVar TearOffPrinted;
Local BooleanVar bSuppressThis;
// set suppression state to whether we printed the tear off yet
bSuppressThis := TearOffPrinted;
// we can now set that the tear off has been printed
TearOffPrinted := true;
// return state of when we entered this footer (ie. did we print the tear off yet?)
bSuppressThis;

However, upon testing it is apparent that if the Detail section spans more than one page the tear off section is also shown on the second page.
If the detail band fits on just the one page, then all is well.

It's as if Crystal hasn't fully 'processed' the page footer until the Detail section is complete?!?!?!!?

I have created a sample illustrating the problem, so if you're up for a puzzle, reply as such and I'll send it to you.

Any help would be gratefully received....

TIA

DC

No, the group header is not printed on each page, only at the tsrt of the group.

In my post I simplified the issue somewhat.
In fact, the report in question has a number of subreports between the header and footer.
With a simple example I can count the number of rows in the detail and set TearOffPrinted in a formula field.
However, doing this in the report proper would be a lot of work and that's why I posted here.

Any other ideas well appreciated.

DC

Yes mate.
I'm pretty resigned to that.  The problem is that the whole report is so flexible that that in itself woul be a headache.

I'm experimenting with having another 'dummy' page footer above nad setting the vars in there. 

Either way, once I find a solution, and by God I will, I'll post back to here.

Thanks for your input & regards

DC