Page Heading - Crosstab DW with N up newspapercolumns

[Former Member]

Hi Guys

Silly question regarding the page heading repeating in a Crosstab report with N up newspapercolumns. Is there a way to stop the page heading repeating? A picture paints a thousand words, see below:

The page heading objects are placed in the Foreground (had to do this to get the to span multiple columns). I have not used Crassyab or N up reports much on there own and never done the two before

PB Version 12.5.2, is there a way to solve this?

Cheers

David

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

There is a option "HideSnaked" für dw object.

If you set this the object appears only once per page.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Good idea! I have just tried that on both the single report and a composite report and the results are the same. I'm starting to think that I'm going to have to live with it. The crosstab report has clear grid lines and it would appear that the DW rendering is not allowing the header objects to spend the full page width.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

In my test it was ok in a crosstab. But I had to close and reopen the Painter to see the difference.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Sadly it does not work for me.

[Former Member]

You can create a composite datawindow and place there the header and your report (the report without the header).

[Former Member]

Hi Rene

Thanks for the thought....

I tried that, but the child report did not perform the N-Up option so ended up with 1 per page.

If you set N-Up on the composite then you get the page heading repeated again.

It's sad, everything else works brilliantly.

Cheers

David

[Former Member]

Seems to be a problem with crosstabs. For tabular dw with n-up option it works.

[Former Member]

Yes, the crosstab report is quite messy and does not actually have a normal header.

[Former Member]

Hi David;

  Tip: You do not need to use an N-UP DW presentation scheme to deliver an N-UP look & feel. Any Tabular DW can deliver the N-UP presentation layer! Just have a look at the print specifications tab in the DWO's properties pane and scroll down to the Newspaper properties section, as follows:

  The only restriction to make this work is that the DW must be in Print Preview mode in order to see the Newspaper column behaviour. However, this would not be an issue when the DW is within a Composite or Nested DWO parent and in these modes, the DWO's are always display in  Prrint Preview mode by default. The Newspaper Tabular DW's not only behave like N-UP but will also give you better layout control. [food for thought]

  I think Rene's suggestion is the best (IMHO) by using a Composite (or Nested) Parent DW and place the Crosstab in the Detail band. Then use a Freeform DW in the header to display the tombstone information & suppress it after page #1.

Just my $0.02.

HTH

Regards ... Chris