Karen, Maybe I can change you mind :)
These regions are a great way to control blocks of your report. I think of them as objects. Objects contain other stuff and work as a unit. I like to think that way. Just think how tedious it would be if you had to do a Shift Relative To on every field! I've looked at a few report writers in other environments, and I have to say this one is slick. Try Crystal Reports some time. You'll know what I mean, big time! My two cents, Dennis ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 10:36 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Report - with Stretch Fields Lena: I hear your pain! Honestly, I think this is the only thing about the newer RBase versions that I don't like. Place a region in your RH and then find the icon for "line style" or something like that and make it "none" so a box doesn't get drawn around it. Place your variable inside that region. To be sure that the variable is indeed inside the region, move the region around and make sure the variable goes with it! Now the trick is that all the stuff below it also has be located inside of its own region! So you place another region on your report, put all your other controls inside of it, then right-click on that region and pick "shift relative to" and choose the first region. I think all my regions have been in the same band on the report. If you have stuff in the RH below the first region, then that needs to go in its own region. Then I'm assuming that everything in the detail band has to go in a third region that shifts relative to the second region! Karen Jan, I tried that, and it does not seem to work. This is in a Report Header, could that be causing me grief? Lena
