On Saturday 30 July 2005 10:59, Paul McNett wrote:
> I've anticipated the desire to have an unlimited number of detail bands
> and groupings, to lay them out separately, and to conditionally print
> one or more detail bands. The designer interface to each of these
> elements could indeed be a pageframe. A "page" on a report doesn't
> necessarily have a 1:1 correlation with a "band" (but it could). Am I
> understanding the vision correctly?
It doesn't necessarily have to span the width of a printed page. Also, let's
not confuse the printed page with the pageframe page: that's an unfortunate
collision of terms. I'll write the pageframe 'page' in quotes to distinguish
them.
Carl's example of address formatting is perfect: arrange a series of fields
and labels on each pageframe 'page', with one 'page' for each different
country format. When the report executes, it will evaluate a condition
property of the pageframe, and use the layout for the particular country's
address.
The area controlled by the pageframe could be small, or it could conceivably
cover an entire band. Now when you have a pageframe on a 'page' of another
pageframe... then it gets interesting!! ;-)
-- Ed
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