Optional lines

[Peter Kinsman]

I have a report which prints a Process Sheet for a plating company. There
is a sub-report to handle a variable number of operations, but certain lines
on the main report are optional. An example is the line to print the Number
Remaining if there has been a partial despatch. Where there is only a line
of text to print, I have enabled the field's CanGrow and CanShrink
properties, but this does not work where there is more than one field on the
optional line. This can happen because of different field alignment or font
size for example.
Would the best solution be to create an extra sub-report?

Many thanks

Peter Kinsman

Many thanks

 

[Peter Kinsman]

I have answered this question by trying it. If the sub-report is made
invisible, the individual controls do not have to be cleared or made
invisible. Although the CanGrow property of a section (on the main report)
defaults to Yes, the default for the CanShrink property is No, so that needs
to be changed.

Peter