Dick, You need to define a variable that represents linestatus, and use that in your eep instead of the column name.
variable: vlinestatus = (linestatus) EEP: IF vlinestatus is NULL THEN PROPERTY idstatus VISIBLE 'FALSE' ENDIF RETURN Dawn Hast Office - (828) 646-2669 Cell - (828) 246-8543 [email protected] wrote on 03/04/2010 12:48:30 PM: > Dick Fey <[email protected]> > Sent by: [email protected] > > 03/04/2010 12:49 PM > > Please respond to > [email protected] > > To > > [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List) > > cc > > Subject > > [RBASE-L] - Hiding Fields in a report > > I have a report (customer invoice) with fields in the detail band for : > a LABEL FIELD 'Item Status:' component id is 'idstatus' > a DBText Field 'DeliveryStatus' component id is 'idstatus' > > On some orders there is tax or freight, and I would like for the 2 > fields not to print as there is no delivery status on those items. > > In the detail band, I have an before generate EEP: > > IF linestatus is NULL THEN > PROPERTY idstatus VISIBLE 'FALSE' > ENDIF > RETURN > > Those fields still print. > What am I doing wrong? > > Dick Fey > Carpet Broker Inc. > > \ > > DISCLAIMER: This electronic message together with any attachments is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, do not copy, disclose or use the contents in any way. Please also advise us by return e-mail that you have received the message and then please destroy. Evergreen Packaging is not responsible for any changes made to this message and / or any attachments after sending by Evergreen Packaging. We use virus scanning software but exclude all liability for viruses or anything similar in this email or any attachment.
