Rave Reports Visual Designer

Headers

QUESTION:

My report MUST have the same header and footer on EACH page, regardless of how many detail records there are for the master record.

ANSWER:

The solution is put the items you want on every page directly ON THE PAGE not in a band. Pardon the caps. Just wanting to emphasis that you do not have to do anything or everything with bands in a region. The main thing to get across is that Rave is a Page-Based designer and exactly what that means.

For example, if you are doing a form style report, like one of the IRS forms, etc, you don't need to use a region at all. We have seen some RAV files that were ALL form style and none of the reports had a region. Of course, if you are doing a "form" report, you may need to use the "DataCycle" component to move through the data tables. Remember, the "DataCycle" should be the first component in the tree list.

If you are doing a band style report then you use the region component as a "holder" for band components.

If a component has to be in a region, it will not let you put it outside of a region. Try and put a band directly on the page - can not do it. Try other components, Text, DataText, DataMemo etc. and they will go where you like. Of course, you have to assign the DataView and DataField properties on the data driven components as you normally would.