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    report conditional object not working

    Attached is my sample db. There are two reports included both based on the same set. Both reports have a filter set in the properties as: ship_num="06-1289"

    There are four records matching this filter. Two of the records have data in the 'tech' field as BER, one has DD, and the 4th has AD.

    The conditional object is in the detail section and is set to display the tech initials if they are equal to BER and to NOT display the data if they are not equal to BER.

    In the shipping report, if the condition is set to equal BER, when you load the report, it shows the tech data initials for all four records. If you set the condition to not equal BER, when you load the report, it displays NO tech data initials.

    If you load the other report (think it is ship_po_no), it has the same exact conditional object with all the same settings. When you load that report, it works correctly. It shows the BER for the two records that have that tech data initials, and on the other two records, it does NOT display the tech data initials.

    I can see no difference between these two reports conditional objects. As a matter of fact, the shipping report was originally copied from the ship_po_no report a while ago.

    There must be something else in the report itself that is causing a conflict somehow resulting in the incorrect display in the shipping report. But I cannot see it anywhere.

    Does anybody know what I am doing in the shipping report that is making the conditional object NOT work properly?
    Last edited by Cheryl Lemire; 09-28-2006, 05:57 PM.
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    Re: report conditional object not working

    Looks to me like:

    a) you have the tech field on both layers of the CO, when at least one of them should be blank if you don't want the tech field value to display; and

    b) your CO filters do not take into consideration the trailing blanks in each tech field. Since the tech field has a width of 8, none of the field values equal "BER", if you see what I mean.

    -- tom

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      Re: report conditional object not working

      Thanks Tom. When I look at the CO there is no tech field in the condition that should not display anything. When I look at the object name in the CO when I want it to display, it is TECH. I looked at the object explorer and it is only showing the TECH object one time.

      Since I was certain that you were NOT seeing things, I deleted the TECH object and the CO object (for about the 100th time) and recreated it. This time I created the isblank first followed by the <> (this should not matter, but I think I had always created it the opposite way). I also took into consideration the blank spaces this time (THANKS, I always forget that part).

      I saved my changes and tested again. ALL is working as it should be.

      There must be something in my video card or something that was not displaying to me the extra TECH object that you were seeing.

      At least it is fixed. Thanks.
      Cheryl
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        Re: report conditional object not working

        Cheryl, I'm glad you got it going. The vertical height of the field object and the vertical height of the CO were almost identical. Perhaps this contributed to the layering confusion... I don't know. I immediately stretched the CO so I could see the boundaries of each object separately and that's when it became easy to see the field object present in each layer.

        -- t

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          Re: report conditional object not working

          Tom,

          You are probably correct. That would make sense since my client was looking at the same thing and seeing the same thing that I was. Neither of us thought to extend the size of the CO.

          That may also explain why my deleting and replacing it multiple times did not resolve the issue. If I was in the wrong layer when I deleted it, I was probably not deleting the object that was not visible to me.

          Thanks
          Cheryl
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