What I mean is the expressions in the footer to be printed when you hit the last record. That's what the wrapper function will test for.
Do you have memos in the footer? I can understand them causing an overflow.
Otherwise the opharn issue should never arise.
>Mathias,
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>Do you mean you put Group Footer information into Detail line wrapped with the condition? How does it help to solve the problem?
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>Also in the particular report I have in mind I have two groups... The second group footer is a bit large and causes orphan footer to be printed.
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>>I think you could achieve that.
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>>Might be smarter ways to do that now with the report listner but one solution i remember in previous versions of VFP was to mark the last record for very group. Make sure that's the last record for the group.
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>>Then in the group footer (NOT the summary) wrap the expressions in a double if: IIF(CheckLastRecord(), RealExpression, Blank).
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>>The footer is essentially 'bound' to the last group record.
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>>I can check the nitty gritty details if i have missed something.
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>>regards
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>>Mathias
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>>>Mathias,
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>>>Thanks a lot for your response. The problem is, that sometimes group footer or summary is printed on a separate page without any detail information above. I want to prevent this, but I don't know is it possible?
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>>>Thanks again and appreciate your thoughts.
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>>>>Naomi how is that possible? I thought you always have to have something you were summarizing.
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>>>>Mathias
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>>>>>Hi everybody,
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>>>>>Do you know if some generic algoritm exists to always keep at least one detail record on a page before the group footer? In other words, how can I not have orphan group footers or report summary?
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>>>>>Thanks a lot in advance.
Mathias Banda
Time is longer than a rope.