I need to Hide a sub report, but still execute it!?

[Former Member]

I have a report which im working on:

In it is a sub-report which has a couple of shared variables which pass to the main report -

What I am having difficulty doing now is that I dont want to display the sub-report, I want it hidden from view.

If I hide or Suppress the section it's in (Group header 2) then it seems like it doesnt even execute it, i.e. the shared variables it passes back to the main report are all set to 0.

The only other thing I tried was to make the sub report as small as possible, and shrink the section down around it, but this is not suitable as I will still sometimes get 1-2 pages of blank pages in the report, due to the rest of the sections (details etc) being suppressed.

Any ideas how to go about it?

[former_member184469 · Accepted solution]

To properly support the subreport so that it does not display in the main report you can follow the steps outlined in this Knowledge Base article:

http://technicalsupport.businessobjects.com/KanisaSupportSite/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&ext... 0 10030392

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks that is exactly what I needed.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Can you post the information from http://technicalsupport.businessobjects.com/KanisaSupportSite/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&ext...

here I can not seem to get to it.

Thanks

Wayne

[ken_hamady2 · Accepted solution]

This is the explanation that I wrote recently:

http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/335