Two Column Report Question

LanceRas

Question.

I have a "simple" two column report.

Page is defined as two columns.

[ReportTitle]
[GroupHeader] *
[Header]
[MasterData] **
[PageFooter]

* Based on condition of change of a persons name from a querry

** Based on Dataset showing "items" belonging to person

I'm creating a simple report that goes

Customer A (in GroupHeader) | item
item 1 (in Master Data) | item
item 2 (in Master Data) |Customer F
Customer B | item
item | item
Customer C |
item |
item |
Customer D |
item |
item |
item |
Customer E |

I want to print going down the 1st column, then start on the top of the second column and go down.
This is working.

What isn't working is the situation where the GroupHeader (Cutomer E for example) fits at the bottom of the 1st column and the masterdata moves to the top of the 2nd column, which "widows" the GroupHeader. How can I keep these together?

Thanks for the assist!

Lance

gordk

Did you set the keeptogether prop of the group header?

LanceRas

Yes. Already checked for those options.


GroupHeader1.KeepTogether:=true;
GroupHeader1.KeepChild:=False;
MasterData1.KeepTogether:=true;
MasterData1.KeepChild:=False;

LanceRas

I continued to tweak with the settings and still can not get the widowed header in the 1st column to move to the 2nd column.

I am using 3.10.

AlexTZ

'Keep' mechanism uses the common code in the FR engine. You can't keep more than 1 item, i.e. if you use keep group, you can't use keep master.

LanceRas

Maybee I'm not seeing how to link this correctly.

I removed all the KeepTogethers except for GroupHeader.

It still doesn't move the group header to the 2nd column.

The only thing I can do is select Reprint On New Page and it will put the group header on the top of the column again.

AlexTZ

Keep works only for new page, not for new column.

LanceRas

I agree that it would seem logical that thats what it means. Yet......

thats not what I see.

Currently report is:

Page Properties - 2 columns

Report1 - Report
ColumnHeader1 - ColumnHeader
Breaks on a specific datafield
GroupHeader1 - GroupHeader
KeepTogether=True
Reprint on New Page=True
Header1 - Header
MasterData1 - MasterData
KeepTogether=False
Footer1 - Footer
GroupFooter1 - GroupFooter
PageFooter1 - PageFooter


I've tried about every combination and still no go.

gordk

Hi
i ll post a small demo in the binaries newsgroup shortly
for Lanceras