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    #16
    Re: how to remove remove entire line if numeric field is 0.00 in a report

    Originally posted by Raymond Lyons View Post
    And the region I thought we were talking about shrinking was the detail region of the report, but that has no effect in my testing.
    It should work either way.
    That said, most of the time the label is used as a column heading in the report and rarely used as a repeating object in the detail area.

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      #17
      Re: how to remove entire line if numeric field is 0.00 in a report

      As to the bullets, a while back I attached a zip file showing how to do that.

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        #18
        Re: how to remove entire line if numeric field is 0.00 in a report

        Originally posted by G Gabriel View Post
        As to the bullets, a while back I attached a zip file showing how to do that.
        It's one thing to have a series of bulleted lines--that was never my issue from years ago. I just did not know how to have those lines skipped when the condition for the line was not met, as lines can be when soft returns are used in an RTF box. The method you outlined here gets around that by putting the appropriate calc fields right in the detail region and even allows for bullets in a calc field using a Winding character. If there is yet another way to do that, I'd sure like to know about it, even though I do little development nowadays.

        FYI, my use of these lines was in a letter listing a variable list of things the recipient needed to send back to the company. (For this I had a form based on a set and logical fields in one table, using a check box format, and a series of items clients may or may not need to send back to the company in another table linked to the parent table.) In an RTF box on a letter layout everything worked great except that in place of bullets I ended up just using "--". Not bad, but not the bullets I would have preferred.

        And Bob, yes an RTF box can be set to shrink (which is great) but I had found no way to put "real" bullets in an RTF box, though now that I think about it I guess I could have tried having 2 RTF boxes side by side with the first one using a Wingding font--I suppose that might work and in some ways might even be a better option. More testing! [Edit: I just tested this and it not only works nicely, in some respects it is more flexible and easier to set up in the layout. Why didn't I think of this method way back when!]

        And yes, the detail section can also be set to shrink (also great) but that alone does nothing to skip the lines we are talking about here and shrink the dead space left by skipped lines--at least not in my testing of all this. For that one seems to have to set the calc field properties to allow shrinking AND one has to be very careful with how these calc fields are positioned in the layout (i.e., no overlapping and consistent spacing for all fields and lines).

        Raymond Lyons
        Last edited by Raymond Lyons; 02-17-2012, 12:06 PM.

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          #19
          Re: how to remove entire line if numeric field is 0.00 in a report

          Originally posted by Raymond Lyons View Post
          And yes, the detail section can also be set to shrink (also great) but that alone does nothing to skip the lines we are talking about here
          It does at least in v8. If I have some time, I will post an example.
          Can't quite remember how I did the bullets. It was a while back but as I said there should be an example posted.

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            #20
            Re: how to remove entire line if numeric field is 0.00 in a report

            Originally posted by G Gabriel View Post
            It does at least in v8. If I have some time, I will post an example.
            Can't quite remember how I did the bullets. It was a while back but as I said there should be an example posted.
            Once again you are correct! Something in my first test layout was keeping it from working (not sure what). But when I created a new test layout and just set the detail section to shrink (and not the Calc fields) it does work. Still, if I were re-doing my old project I think I'd go with side by side RTF boxes set to shrink, especially because in my old layout I had other, regular table fields off the the right side of my RTF box, and I have to think that would stop the dead space between calc fields from shrinking if the calc fields just in the detail region (but not in an RTF box).

            Raymond Lyons
            Last edited by Raymond Lyons; 02-17-2012, 01:43 PM.

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              #21
              Re: how to remove entire line if numeric field is 0.00 in a report

              Again, nothing against RTF. In fact I use RTF a lot in reports. Just offering other options particularly when RTF might not be the best, as in lining certain fields vertically.

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                #22
                Re: how to remove entire line if numeric field is 0.00 in a report

                With the advice above, What worked for me was to check mark "shrink contents in band" in group header. I have no detail section.

                Setting a fields format in the report to "Blank if Zero" works great, but only on that field. Doesn't wipe the line.

                Would be awesome if you could place a hidden calc field in the report that could wipe the entire line based on it's value!
                Tried "remove_blank_lines()" many ways, but couldn't get it to take the line out.

                In Alpha4 "DOS" you put "B-" in the format and if the value in that field was 0 it removed all content in that line. Was a beautiful thing!!!

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                  #23
                  Re: how to remove entire line if numeric field is 0.00 in a report

                  A conditional object might do the same so the fields only display based on the calculation you use to test for zero or blank.
                  Robin

                  Discernment is not needed in things that differ, but in those things that appear to be the same. - Miles Sanford

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                    #24
                    Re: how to remove entire line if numeric field is 0.00 in a report

                    Originally posted by V7 Noob View Post
                    With the advice above, What worked for me was to check mark "shrink contents in band" in group header. I have no detail section.

                    Setting a fields format in the report to "Blank if Zero" works great, but only on that field. Doesn't wipe the line.

                    Would be awesome if you could place a hidden calc field in the report that could wipe the entire line based on it's value!
                    Tried "remove_blank_lines()" many ways, but couldn't get it to take the line out.

                    In Alpha4 "DOS" you put "B-" in the format and if the value in that field was 0 it removed all content in that line. Was a beautiful thing!!!
                    Must of missed this thread before.

                    You'll want a conditional object with a condition of <yourfield>=0 with nothing in it and a default area of the fields you want to display.

                    Use the shrink option in as many places as needed.
                    Al Buchholz
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                      #25
                      Re: how to remove entire line if numeric field is 0.00 in a report

                      The conditional object works Great!

                      Didn't realize you could hide or show multiple fields with-in them.

                      Was nice to see, although calc fields inside the properties, expression builder, don't show. You can still use them in the expression!

                      Thanks so much!

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                        #26
                        Re: how to remove entire line if numeric field is 0.00 in a report

                        Possibly a filter on the report that only allows >0.00 records based on the fields? Then you don't have to code much of anything
                        Dave Mason
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                          #27
                          Re: how to remove entire line if numeric field is 0.00 in a report

                          Interesting how this thread moved from one issue to one now far removed from the original.

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                            #28
                            Re: how to remove entire line if numeric field is 0.00 in a report

                            Originally posted by DaveM View Post
                            Possibly a filter on the report that only allows >0.00 records based on the fields? Then you don't have to code much of anything
                            Dave

                            Good idea.

                            But, I went back to reread the issue and noticed that Barry is not using a detail section. So the summary could result in zero, but the report filter won't catch a 5, -5 pair of records.

                            Ray

                            Yeah. Kinda funny how the thread morphed, but a good job of finding an old thread that is related.
                            Al Buchholz
                            Bookwood Systems, LTD
                            Weekly QReportBuilder Webinars Thursday 1 pm CST

                            Occam's Razor - KISS
                            Normalize till it hurts - De-normalize till it works.
                            Advice offered and questions asked in the spirit of learning how to fish is better than someone giving you a fish.
                            When we triage a problem it is much easier to read sample systems than to read a mind.
                            "Make it as simple as possible, but not simpler."
                            Albert Einstein

                            http://www.iadn.com/images/media/iadn_member.png

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                              #29
                              Re: how to remove entire line if numeric field is 0.00 in a report

                              Actually, I think the additional info is right on since the rtf object is not the only solution.
                              Robin

                              Discernment is not needed in things that differ, but in those things that appear to be the same. - Miles Sanford

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                                #30
                                Re: how to remove entire line if numeric field is 0.00 in a report

                                Originally posted by MoGrace View Post
                                Actually, I think the additional info is right on since the rtf object is not the only solution.
                                Hmm, not the only solution to what issue? It's not 100% clear to my tired eyes but I suspect Barry's issue is very different from the original 2012 issue that started this thread. As for the original issue, as usual Stan Matthews pretty much nailed it using an rtf. I'm not sure one or more conditional objects would have addressed that original question at all, or at least in any simple way, but I do know that one can do surprising things with rtf's very simply that I for one would be hard pressed to do with conditional objects. But yes Al, good job of Barry's for finding a somewhat related thread that suggested a solution to his particular problem.

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