A few questions

Hello all:
We have recently adopted this platform for our reporting. A couple of
issues I am having:
1. We would like the grouped columns to start on the same row as the parent,
so that there is not a break before the grouped items begin. Any way to do
this?
2. Our parameters include a boolean representing a column's visibility. I
am having trouble showing and hiding columns and having the table appear
correctly. If I set the column visibility to an expression it does hid ethe
contents of the column, but not the column itself. Any ideas?
Thanks a lot.
MikeI figured out solutions to both of these problems, but am still working on
some issues:
1. I actually place the coulmn values in the parent group and then in the
details level I wrote a visibility expression that checked if the row number
was the first in that group and if it was I set it's visibility to hidden.
=Iif(RowNumber("GROUPNAME") = 1,true,false)
2. Setting the columns visibility does hide the column (I simply had some
sort of error in my visibility expression), but a) the line borders still
exist if you have a border around a table, and b) the space remains and the
columns do not resize to fill the page, thus leaving an ugly space in the
report.. I am working on ways to deal with this. Any ideas would be
useful.
3. There seems to be differences in the PDF rendering in Acrobat 5.0 and
Acrobat 6.0. Especially when it comes to line thicknesses. Has anyone had
these problems?
Mike
"Michael Solomons" <mikesolo@.optonline.net> wrote in message
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> Hello all:
> We have recently adopted this platform for our reporting. A couple of
> issues I am having:
> 1. We would like the grouped columns to start on the same row as the
parent,
> so that there is not a break before the grouped items begin. Any way to
do
> this?
> 2. Our parameters include a boolean representing a column's visibility. I
> am having trouble showing and hiding columns and having the table appear
> correctly. If I set the column visibility to an expression it does hid
ethe
> contents of the column, but not the column itself. Any ideas?
> Thanks a lot.
> Mike
>