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Removing space from suppressed page footer?

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Topic: Removing space from suppressed page footer?
Posted By: Hammerklavier
Subject: Removing space from suppressed page footer?
Date Posted: 12 Jan 2012 at 5:19am
When I suppress my page footer for certain pages of the report, the space where the footer would have been is reserved and the records don't take its place as I would like.  My report uses subreports, fields set to "Can Grow", and a lot of grouping, so I don't see myself being able to use a details section at the bottom of the page instead of the page footer.  Does anyone know of a way to work around this is Crystal Reports XI?  Is the problem resolved in Crystal 2008?
 
I just want my records to continue to the bottom of the page when the page footer is suppressed.
 
Thank you.


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Posted By: DBlank
Date Posted: 12 Jan 2012 at 5:35am
1. did you make all of your subreports common tab 'Keep object together' as False?
 2. Did you check you section expert to make sure all of your sections are 'Keep together' set to false?

Posted By: Hammerklavier
Date Posted: 12 Jan 2012 at 8:28am
DBlank,
 
I tried your suggestion of removing the check on "Keep object together" for the subreport and for "Keep Together" on all of the sections (except for the group headers, where this option is checked and grayed out, so I can't change it).  When I suppress footer A and show footer B instead, my report still reserves all of the room for footer a.

Posted By: DBlank
Date Posted: 12 Jan 2012 at 8:41am
So you are conditionally suppressing?
Interesting...
From a simple test, if I suppress with no condition the space is gone but if I suppress using a formula, even as simple as TRUE it seems to leave some extra space.
Are you trying to choose between footer A and B or are there instances on a page that would have neither?

Posted By: Hammerklavier
Date Posted: 12 Jan 2012 at 9:43am
DBlank,
 
The first page of a report would always feature Footer A, and every subsequent page would have footer B instead.  Footer B is quite small compared to Footer A, which is why it's frustrating to have all that Footer A space being reserved for every page.

Posted By: DBlank
Date Posted: 12 Jan 2012 at 10:38am
this is very odd.
You can help it a little by setting footer a to underlay following sections as true so you are not left with both a and b blank sections but it does not resolve your issue.
I am not seeing a way to make that behavior different.
Anyone else have ideas?


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