keepWithNext trick

Reinhard
Reinhard Member Posts: 249
edited 2011-09-06 in NAV Tips & Tricks
Hi... I had this problem and I saw that others have had it too. Basically, when creating a report, you want to avoid a page break between certain sections. But the KeepWithNext property does not help you.

Specifically, it will not keep a "Header" section with a "Body" section, even for the same data item.

So what I did was add in another "Body" section that I only print for the first record, so it behaves like a Header, but keepWithNext will still work.
Oztera

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  • kriki
    kriki Member, Moderator Posts: 9,121
    [Topic moved from 'NAV/Navision' forum to 'NAV Tips & Tricks' forum]
    Regards,Alain Krikilion
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  • Kleba
    Kleba Member Posts: 1
    Thanks for this helpful post. In addition to this, I had the problem, that I need the heading on the next page again (e.g. when you have a lots of lines after the heading and the lines continue on the nextpage). With a header-section you would have been set "PrintOnEveryPage" = True, but with a body section you have to do a small workaround.

    I did it this way: 
    XXX Line, Body (1) - OnPostSection()

// Don't show generally 
CurrReport.SHOWOUTPUT(FALSE);

// Check if it is the first Record
IF IsFirstRecOfDataItem THEN BEGIN
  CurrReport.SHOWOUTPUT(TRUE);
  IsFirstRecOfDataItem := FALSE;
  // Remember the page
  HeaderLastPrintedOnPage := CurrReport.PAGENO;
END ELSE BEGIN
  // Was printed on last page? Print again :)
  IF HeaderLastPrintedOnPage <> CurrReport.PAGENO THEN BEGIN
    CurrReport.SHOWOUTPUT(TRUE);
    HeaderLastPrintedOnPage := CurrReport.PAGENO;
  END;
END;

    Don't forget to set IsFirstRecOfDataItem and HeaderLastPrintOnPage to correct init-values in the OnPreDataItem.

    Maybe this helps for someone :)

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