[RBG7-L] - Re: Page and report footers

[Javier Valencia]

Karen: The page footer will always print above the page footer. The page footer is always located at the “foot” of the page, i.e. at the very bottom of the page at the location calculated as Larry indicated in a previous post (Page length – bottom margin – page footer height); you can have a page footer that is tall enough that starts printing at the middle or even at the top of the page… The report footer will print at the “foot” of the report and not at the foot of the page. In other words, if you have enough space to print your report footer between the last line of the report and the top of the page footer, it will print it there, otherwise it will go to the next page to keep it together and then it will print a page footer at the bottom. Unless you do not print a page footers, I do not see how you would get the report footer to print below the page footer, or for that matter why you would want to…as it is normally used to print things like page numbers that should always print at the very bottom of the page; IMHO it would look strange to print it mid way down the page with the report footer below. The page footer deals strictly with position within each page, the report footer deals with relative position with in the report, namely at the end. Now, if you always want to print the report footer in a new page, right click on the report footer region and select “new page” and the report footer will always be printed on a new page; however, a page footer will also be printed at the bottom of that page. I hope that this explains how it works …or my understanding of it anyhow… Javier,   Javier Valencia, PE President Valencia Technology Group, L.L.C. 14315 S. Twilight Ln, Suite #14 Olathe, Kansas 66062-4578 Office (913)829-0888 Fax (913)649-2904 Cell (913)915-3137 ================================================ Attention: The information contained in this message and or attachments is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material.  Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from all system and destroy all copies. ======================================================   -----Original Message----- From: rbg7-l@rbase.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 2:07 PM To: RBG7-L Mailing List Subject: [RBG7-L] - Re: Page and report footers   Larry: Okay, if I only have a page footer located on my report (no report footer) I see that it starts at the bottom of the page.  Perfect, no problem.  I am somewhat confused that the dynamic/static height is greyed out and I see that in Position, the print position is also greyed out, so I guess you have no options. Now I put in a Report Footer, just locate a label with the word "hello" and it appears ABOVE my page footer!  If I click on the RF, and pick "position", I see it has put a print position of 9.5 in there. I change the 9.5 by one .1 at a time and it stays on TOP of the page footer until finally at 9.9 the page footer stays at the bottom and it pushes the report footer to a new page all by itself! Could you please try this?  Put just a page footer on a report, verify that it works okay, then add a simple report footer?  How in the heck do you get the report footer to print below the page footer, and hopefully not on a piece of paper all by itself! Karen The page footer prints immediately above the bottom margin of the report. Exactly how high up the page it starts depends on the height of the page footer band.  It will start at (PageLength - BottomMargin - PageFooterBandHeight). The report footer will print immediately after the last "other" band (detail or footer if there are any footers). Prior versions of R:Base did not work this way -- they would print the page footer immediately after the data (unless you specified a page footer line through trial and error) and the report footer would actually appear after the last page footer. To my way of thinking, the new version is an enormous improvement over the old one -- I don't have to explain to people any more why I cannot locate the report totals immediately under the columns of numbers they are totalling. -- Larry