How to conditionally format a drawing object

[jsstern]

CR XI: I have a user that needs a (check) box to print in the page header section, but only print on the first page of the document.  I don't see any way to conditionally suppress a line or box.  Any ideas?

[abhilash_kumar · Accepted solution]

Hi Julie,

Lines or boxes don't have conditional suppression formulas.

Try this:

1) Create a new section and place the Line/Box in this section

2) Go to the Section Expert > Select the section that holds the Line/Box > Click the formula button beside 'Suppress' and use this code:

Not(OnFirstRecord)

-Abhilash

[jsstern · Accepted solution]

Thanks, Abhilash, but I needed the box and label to be in line with other text in the same section.  I ended up creating a box in Word, copying it and adding it as an OLE object.  Then, I could conditionally suppress the object.

Julie

[abhilash_kumar · Accepted solution]

You could have also tried checking the 'Underlay following sections' option for the section to position the fields.

Anyway, glad you were able to find another way out.

-Abhilash

[jsstern · Accepted solution]

Thanks.  It's just annoying that you can't conditionally suppress drawing objects.  That would be very helpful with lines as well.

[former_member183750 · Accepted solution]

Hello Julie

If you would like this feature, you can request it in the SAP Idea Place. Personally I think it's a great idea and I will certainly vote it up and I will tweet it to the followers of @SAPCRDes. The more votes we get, the more pressure on Product managers to add this to the product.

If you do add this to the Idea Place, post a link to it here, so I can tweet it.

- Ludek

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[jsstern · Accepted solution]

Hi, Ludek.

I went to submit the idea, and found that it had already been submitted as idea D637 on 10/21/2010.  It is listed as being "under review".  There is also another one under review -- D1776 submitted on 3/7/2011 -- which just mentions lines, as opposted to all drawing objects.

[former_member183750 · Accepted solution]

Excellent. I'll tweet both of them. After that, all we can do is keep our fingers crossed

- Ludek

[former_member183750 · Accepted solution]

Looking at the Idea, it has quite a few votes (32 now) as these things go. Coy mentioned BI 4.2, meaning in our case CR 2011 / 2013. BI 4.2 is supposed to see the light of day sometime next year...

- Ludek

[abhilash_kumar · Accepted solution]

I just voted up too!

The possibility of an Idea being implemented increases each time Coy replies or asks a few questions !

-Abhilash