Claudine I haven't tried it but what about setting a report variable to the column and testing that in the eep?
David David Blocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] 781-784-1919 Fax: 781-784-1860 Cell: 339-206-0261 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Claudine Robbins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBG7-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 11:42 AM Subject: [RBG7-L] - 7.5 Report Question > I'm having fun designing a new report in 7.5 which contains a sub-report as > follows: > > Label: stop | > Variable Label: Concatenated fields TO and SHIPPER > Db memo: DESCRIPTION > > All on one line. > > When there is data, this is what is printed: > > Stop | LAFAYETTE - SMITH INDUSTRIES 3 BOXES OF TOOLS > > Many times, however, the stop doesn't have a description and when that > happens, I want to suppress printing the whole line. > > After carefully studying RRBYW10 EepsInReportBands, I have: > > Put the three objects of my sub-report on region3 (visible checked) and (1) > given it a component id of region3, and (2) given a component id to > DESCRIPTION of stopdesc. > > Now, on a "before generate" eep in the detail band, I want to test the value > in DESCRIPTION: > > GETPROPERTY stopdesc TEXTVALUE 'vstopdesc' > IF vstopdesc IS NULL THEN > PROPERTY region3 VISIBLE FALSE > ENDIF > RETURN > > Unfortunately, it suppresses the line even when there is a value for > DESCRIPTION... > > I find no documentation of GETPROPERTY command in reports... > > TIA, > > Claudine :) > >
