Page footer not displayed on first page

[former_member267493]

Hello!
I'm new to SAP Crystal reports and I'm given old reports to update.

In each report, there is a page footer.

It appears at the end of each page, but not at the end of the first page, just after the report header.

So, the work around I found was to put the content in the report header section and put some space between header report content and footer content, so that this appear more at the bottom of the page.

But the frame of the report header seems to be smaller than the page, and the footer is a little too high...

Note : there I see there is a blank space between the limit of the report header section and the limits of the bottom of the page...

Some question, then :

- I try to make the page footer appear on the first page : I found no formula that makes it disappearon the first page...

- Is it a general or report property to set to change the report header frame dimension? I tried with the page setup properties, without any solution

- Is there a place where properties for the section can be changed else than the section expert?

- I try to use the object properties, but again, no formula that makes the object of the page footer disappear on the first page

Any help would be appreciated...

Thanks!

[abhilash_kumar]

Hi Sabine,

If the Report Header is too large and if the Page Footer can't fit on the remainder of the Page, CR moves the Page Footer to the next page (or even further until it can fully fit the Page Footer).

There are workarounds, however, could you post the design page of your report please?

-Abhilash

[former_member267493]

Thanks for your quick answer! 🙂

I see that I didn't put enough information:

the report header is not too large: it's even rather small, actually...

I have to resize the report header so that the last lines seem to be the footer...

The page footer is not moved to the following page...

Here's the design : sorry I had to remove some text...

[former_member267493]

sorry failed attachment 😞

[abhilash_kumar]

Do you have a Subreport on this Report Header?

Do you have a text object on the Report Header and grows vertically?

-Abhilash

[former_member267493]

Hello Abhilash,

Thanks for your reply!

Nope: No subreport in the report header, and no growing text object.

The report header is considered as a presentation sheet only.

Thanks for your ideas 🙂

Sabine

[abhilash_kumar]

Could you attach a screenshot of the Preview Page as well please?

-Abhilash

[former_member267493]

Here's! 🙂

These are the 2 pages of the report :

the first page that contains the report header and should contains the page footer as well,

and the second page, containing the page header, the report footer and the page footer.

Sabine

[abhilash_kumar]

The Page Size you've selected seems to be too small to fit the entire Report Heade + Page Footer.

You'd need to either increase the vertical size of the page (Go to File > Page Setup) or reduce the height of the Report Header section.

If that still doesn't work, make sure you don't have a conditional suppression logic on the Page Footer to suppress on Page 1.

-Abhilash

[former_member267493]

Thanks Abhilash!!!

Your first idea is the good one :

I copied each element of each section to a new report and reduced the vertical size much more that I did before : that's the solution indeed!

I didn't reduce the height enough before to see it.

Now I have a second problem :

I have one page footer for the first page, and a second one for the rest of the report.

I added a condition on each of them and that ok.

But : the preview shows that the page footers are displayed very high on each page.

The goal was to display them at the bottom of the page, but the option in the section expert is grayed (and I don't think it's the good option)

I tried by dissociating the formatting page size and the printer page size in the page setup options,or by changing the margins: it seems that margins are still there on the preview, and that their height is quite large...

Would you see what can solve this?

Thanks a lot !

Sabine

[abhilash_kumar]

Have you tried decreasing the margins?

Do you have a screenshot of how high the Page Footer is?

-Abhilash

[former_member267493]

I tried to decrease the margins to 0.100 cm : it works for the first page (and the first footer) but not for the second one : the page setup options are for the whole file, isn't it?

I also used the 'Underlay following sections' option (for the 2 page footers) to achieve the good position for the first page, but still the second page is not OK.

[abhilash_kumar]

Both screenshots are the same!

-Abhilash

[former_member267493]

Oooops! sorry!

[abhilash_kumar]

I don't see where the issue is with the Page Footer.

The size of the Page Footer in preview seems to match the size you've set up in the Design page.

-Abhilash

[former_member267493]

Abhilash,

What I mean : The footer bottom should stick to the bottom margin of the page.

The margin at the bottom was changed to 0.100 cm for the whole file.

So: if you compare the 2 files :

- for the first page, and the first footer, the footer is at the right place,

- but why then is it not the case for the second page?
There is still some 1,5cm of empty space below the second footer.

It is just a question : I think that my first problem is solved, and thanks for that, but I wanted to fully understand 🙂

Thanks for your patience again!

Sabine

[abhilash_kumar]

The Page Footer's size can never 'reduce' depending on the amount of data in it.

If the Page Footer's contents on Page 1 are different than that of Page 2, you should consider creating two Page Footers.

The Page Footer for Page 2 can be sized to a minimum depending on its contents.

You can then check the 'Reserve Minimum Page Footer' option under Section Expert > Page Footer.

You'd also need a conditional suppression logic on the two Page footers so they both don't show up together.

-Abhilash