>>Hi
>>I have a report with 2 detail bands. In the second detail band, i selected to show the header and footer, and drawed a box from the header through the detail band down to the footer.
>>When printing the report, i have some records where there are children that should show in this latter detail band, but for some records, there shouldn't be anything there. In those cases, the report still shows the box/titles/lines etc...Is there a way to remove those?
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>>TIA
>>Jaime
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>The header and footer bands for details always print, regardless of whether there are any child records. However, what you can do to suppress the information is enter some Print When logic for each item in those bands. For example, if you use NOT EOF() as the Print When, and check the box for remove when blank, those items won't print and all the extra space should be collapsed.

Dear Cathy
Thank you for your help. It's weird the header and footer always print, i think there should be a setting to let me decide about that in the particular case of multiple detail bands. It just makes the whole method ( i.e multiple detail bands ) inusable in many cases.
I was looking for something to put in the Print When, but was afraid of the !eof() in this case. I'll give it a try.
Again, thank you very much for your great help.
Jaime