Keeping groups together
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Topic: Keeping groups together
Posted By: yggdrasil
Subject: Keeping groups together
Date Posted: 11 Jul 2007 at 4:25am
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Maybe a silly question, but is there a way of starting a new page with a group header, but not after every group? I have a report with groups: GH,D,D.D,GF, GH,D,D,GF and so on. (GF is usually empty). Depending on the number of detail records, maybe four or five will fit on a page. I would like to keep each group together on a page, ie start a new page with a group header. But all the methods I have tried either put only one group on a page, which wastes paper, or don't work at all. I mostly want to avoid the group header being at the bottom of a page isolated from the details. I have 'Keep together' ticked |
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Posted By: foxy
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2007 at 2:40am
| I think if you go into the 'section expert', select the group footer & make sure that the 'new page after' option is ticked. I think that is what you are after. |
Posted By: yggdrasil
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2007 at 7:53am
| Nope, that puts each group on a new page. That is what I don't want. I want as many whole groups as I can get on a page. |
Posted By: foxy
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2007 at 8:09am
| Ah rite, should have read the post properly! apologies. I'll see what i can find out |
Posted By: yggdrasil
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2007 at 6:32am
Still hoping for enlightenment
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Posted By: BrianBischof
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2007 at 8:15am
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CR uses the rule that if you set a GH to be 'Keep Together' then it tries to print the entire group on the remaining portion of the page. But if it sees that the whole group can't fit on the page, then it will start printing at the top of the next page. Thus, small groups can usually be squeezed into the bottom of a page, and CR will do it whenever possible. Large groups that require more than one page automatically get their own page no matter how much empty space is left on the previous page because they can never completely fit at the bottom of the previous page. That is the best CR can do. It doesn't have a rule that says "Only start a new page if less than 25% white space is left." or anything like that.
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Posted By: yggdrasil
Date Posted: 24 Jul 2007 at 4:24am
| I thought that was what should happen. I do have the GHs set to 'Keep Together', but the report still splits them. Is there maybe an option I have set wrongly somewhere that is overriding the default? |
Posted By: jax200
Date Posted: 26 Jul 2007 at 5:07am
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Right-click Group Header in Design.
Go to Change Group and select Options tab and select "Keep group Together". |