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9.8

Crystal Reports group footer appearing on following page.

Asked by RQuadling in Crystal Reports Software

Tags: Crystal Reports, grouping, subtotals

Hi.

I've got a report which has a group footer.

The footer sometimes appears by itself on a page. The previous page is full and so the footer (just some totals) appears on the following page.

This is fine to a point.

What I would like is to have the header of the group repeated at the top of the page as the column headings would be useful for the total columns.

If a group goes over a page break, then the header is displayed.

The issue only occurs when it is only the group footer that is being printed.

As an example, assume that a page can only hold 10 lines.

So, with the page header/footer and group header/footer, that leaves 6 detail lines.

PAGE HEADER
GROUP HEADER
DETAIL 1
DETAIL 2
DETAIL 3
DETAIL 4
DETAIL 5
DETAIL 6
GROUP FOOTER
PAGE FOOTER


Now, say there are 8 detail lines.

I get (which is correct for me) ...

PAGE HEADER
GROUP HEADER
DETAIL 1
DETAIL 2
DETAIL 3
DETAIL 4
DETAIL 5
DETAIL 6
DETAIL 7
PAGE FOOTER
PAGE HEADER
GROUP HEADER
DETAIL 8
GROUP FOOTER
-B-L-A-N-K-
-B-L-A-N-K-
-B-L-A-N-K-
-B-L-A-N-K-
-B-L-A-N-K-
PAGE FOOTER

But for 7 detail lines ...

PAGE HEADER
GROUP HEADER
DETAIL 1
DETAIL 2
DETAIL 3
DETAIL 4
DETAIL 5
DETAIL 6
DETAIL 7
PAGE FOOTER
PAGE HEADER
GROUP FOOTER
-B-L-A-N-K-
-B-L-A-N-K-
-B-L-A-N-K-
-B-L-A-N-K-
-B-L-A-N-K-
-B-L-A-N-K-
-B-L-A-N-K-
PAGE FOOTER


For the second page, I want the GROUP HEADER ...

PAGE HEADER
GROUP HEADER
GROUP FOOTER
-B-L-A-N-K-
-B-L-A-N-K-
-B-L-A-N-K-
-B-L-A-N-K-
-B-L-A-N-K-
-B-L-A-N-K-
PAGE FOOTER


Hmm.

Whilst I'm thinking of this, my report actually has a few more groups.

They are

Filename (header suppressed)
Cost Centre (header suppressed)
User (header suppressed)
Source (header displayed and forces a new page)
Type (non page breaking grouping, but group header printed at the top of each page).


I think if I have a copy of the headers on the User Group Header and somehow only show it when I'm on page 2 where there is no details ... or something like that ... then I think it will work.

Ideas?

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