kevin15k

I found a solution to my bolding problem. Checking the bold checkmark in the properties pane is not enough to make it bold. You also have to select a bold font from the 'PDF Font name is now deprecated' drop down in order to make it bold in PDF.

Nope, a subreport does not fix my problem. Tried putting my long description field in a subreport, but the long subreport still stretches and puts blank space between the rows of the 15 fields in my details band. Also tried putting my 15 fields in a subreport rather than the description, but still the description stretches and thus stretches the rows of my subreport. Even tried putting both the description and my 15 other fields into their own subreports, no difference. I would think a subreport would be its own separate entity and would not stretch due to other fields in the main report details band, but that does not appear to be the case. I guess I will just have to accept that their is no equivalent to Crystal reports 'Underlay Following Section' in Ireport.

Ok I can try that, but I believe a subreport requires another hit to the database. My main report data already contains the data I need. So I'm not too sure, but if there is a way to transfer my main report data to the subreport without another call to the database that would be nice. Thanks for your help.

Yeah, lets say my data is 4 rows consisting of a description field and 15 other fields like my attached picture. These 4 rows all share the same id and are grouped together. I only populate the description field in the first row of the group, and set it to NULL in the other three since I only want the description to show up once for the group. The problem is my description can be more than one line while the other 15 fields are always only one line. Since the description wraps to more than one line then the other fields have the blank space between them. I would like to somehow have another band above with the description only and have that band lie directly beneath my band with the 15 other fields, but I don't think you can do that in Ireport.

I am also having this same problem with IReport 4.0. I have a font size 12 Sans Serif with the bold checkbox checked. However it does not bold the text in the PDF, which makes no sense at all.

In a single row in my result set I have a description field and 15 other fields. The description field on the far left can get very long so I allow it to 'Strech With Overflow'. The other fields will always only take up one line. I want the 15 other fields to display right after each other, do not want a big blank space between them since my description on the far left is pushing them down. In an ancient version of Crystal reports you could put the description in the group header and check the option to 'Underlay Following Sections'. Then put the 15 other fields in the details section. That way the description on the far left would go directly under the details section so the 15 fields on the right would display right after each other with no white space. Attached is a picture of my problem. Post Edited by kevin15k at 02/11/2011 16:04

This is very puzzling since a really old version of Crystal reports had something called report footer and you could and as many subsections to that as you want, and doesn't make much sense why Jasper would not allow more than one summary page.

For every group footer you can add another group footer band so why can't you not add another summary band? I need to have two separate static pages at the end of my report. I have exhausted all of the space in the summary band so I can't add a page break to it. I tried putting in a fake group so that it's footer would be my last footer, and started it on new page so I would get the two separate static pages with that page and the summary. However, the fake group footer band prints the page header info from the rest of the report which I do not want it to do since the user is to write in that info for themselves on the last two pages.

Thank you Carl. I went into my report inspector, and apparently I already had a group named OrderID, must have created it with the report wizzard in the beginning, just right clicked on that and hit Add Band and it added it for me. Put the line in there and shrank the band and it seems to work. Thanks.

During evaluation time I want to compare current row with the next row in my resultset. I am doing this since I only want to show a horizontal line when the orderID changes. For example if my result set looks like: OrderID 555 555 555 555 556 I only want to show the line after the last 555 so I need something to compare current OrderID with the next one coming up in the result set. Crystal reports had this functionality with a next() and previous() function. Post Edited by kevin15k at 02/02/2011 17:19