How to reduce band height after hiding a field

[J_N]

I conditionally hide a field but I would like to hide all 'line' the field is on. It means reducing the height of the whole band. I see there checkbox 'Remove line when blank' but it seems to do nothing.

What I like in other reporting applications and missing in iReport is possibility of adding multiple bands. Each of this band can be hidden separately. The above problem then would be solved by adding new detail band, making a condition which was formerly in field and then putting the field alone on it. It would be nice to have this feature.

 

Thanks in advance for any comments.

[zsoelod]

Hi

this worked for me in version 0.5.1 I used till now, do you have set print when expression for each field in the row?

[J_N]

Yes I have. Fields disappered on condition, but empty space remained on the former place and height of band is the same.

 

I can describe it this way, on detail band there are fields a and b:

 

a show

b hide

a show

b hide

a show

b conditionally show (for example after every 3 a rows)

a show

b hide

a show

...

 

 

And the result should be

 

a

a

a

b

a

a

a

b

 

but is

 

a

_

a

_

a

b

a

_

a

_

a

[lucianc]

Is there any other element in the band which shares vertical space with the element you want to hide? This would explain why the vertical space is not reclaimed..

 

Regards,

Lucian

[J_N]

The are field and static text next to each other, but they have the same height are are top aligned. Strange - I deleted field and created it again and now all is ok - vertical space is gone.