Barbara,

Thanks for your help (prompt, aren't I?).

I am a developer working on a four-person project. Unfortunately, the client has not seen fit to hire more than lil ol' me. So, when I get into a jam, I send out a cry for help, then I get cracking with other things. As you can see, it can take me weeks to get back to a particular problem. I guess I am apologizing for taking so long to get back to you with my results.

So, I defined bil_group as a Report Variable, Value to Store: ord_no+osh_no, Initial Value: "", Release after Report, reset at: ord_no+osh_no. I even placed a text box of bil_group in the report's detail band. And lastly I have a whole bunch of fields in the page footer with Print Whens of: bil_group # ord_no+osh_no. And nothing prints in the page footer, ever. A puzzle.

Your idea seems so obvious and clear, what did I do wrong?

David



>David,
>I don't know if this is too late to help you... You can store the field the group breaks on to a report variable (look at the Report/variable menu). Then compare the report variable with the field value in the footer.
>
>HTH
>Barbara
>
>>Thanks Cindy and Barbara.
>>
>>But what variables / fields would I compare in the Print When to determine a group break? One is the Group's definition. What's the other? An unprintable textbox of these fields in the detail line?
>>
>>David
>>
>>>David,
>>>I'm assuming you are starting each group on a new page. You can put the information into the Page Footer but set the Print When property so it only prints when the group value changes.
>>>
>>>HTH
>>>Barbara
>>>
>>>>How do I print what is (logically) a group footer at the bottom of a page (as though it were a page footer), not immediately after its details run out? There may be multiple pages of details for a group, and I do not want it to print every page of a multi-page group.