I need to create a 'nice looking' report using VFP 9.0. One of the specifications is that it has to have three columns with lines dividing the columns. I have no problem getting the columns, my issue is how to create the lines on the fly.
I've got the lines in the detail section of the report, but they only print when there is data - no data, no lines. I'm considering appending empty records to the data set that will satisfy the grouping criteria, so that the columns will be forced, but this seems a bit of a kludge.
Is there a better way to get around this?
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Take the screen shots from http://www.softprogoa.com/
Ah, but I don't see multiple columns - this seems to cause a problem, see attachment...
Example of designer and resultant output.
Missed the attachment on the previous submission...
Example of desired result and actual result
I see multiple column lines in tushars example. Are you following his idea correctly? for each vertical line he has only one line object going from header over detail band to the footer band, therefor it will stretch over the whole report page. It's not three line objects in header, detail and footer, it's one line stretching over all three bands.
Bye, Olaf.
Hi Olaf,
Please note in my example that I have Column Header and Column Footer bands in the Report Designer. These do not exist in the example you cite. These are the columns that are essential to my design, and also which cause his example to not work in my case - I've tried, with single lines going across the bands as suggested.
Thanks for your suggestion.
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by: tusharkanvindePosted on 2009-06-24 at 08:37:25ID: 24702190
If I have understood what you want, you can extend the lines to go into the page footer. Then the vertical lines will be printed till the bottom.