On a few occasions I'd assigned a report variable with the conditional value, then used the variable in the print-when. This way it saved me a bit of trouble if I found a situation where I'd needed to make changes to the print-when expression.

>Hi All,
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>Is there a way to conditionally suppress the printing of the detail band other than 'print when-ing' each object? They're already loaded up with a fair set of conditions, and I don't want to add more.
>I tried hacking the report and putting a condition in the supexpr field, but it just ignored it; tried setting the height to 0, but then all the records (20) printed on the top line.
>I already have a routine that scans through the report doing other stuff, so I could make the print colour white, or mask it with a bitmap, but I'd like something a little more elegant. Any ideas?
>Thanks.
>
>Luke