2 Replies Latest reply on Mar 11, 2013 4:25 PM by KevinElder

Printing Sub Summary Records on the Same Page Revisited

KevinElder Mar 11, 2013 4:08 PM

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With thanks to PhilModJunk's suggestion in Shrinking fields within a portal and shrinking portal for printing (thank you!), I was able to create a layout which allows me to reduce the section size needed depending on the number of rows needed for a portal. Overly simplified, I created this basic layout:

(PART) Sub Summary by Main::Company (Leading)

Company

(PART) Body

Contact

(Only using enough space for which there are contacts - more contacts = more space)

(PART) Sub Summary by Main::Company (Trailing)

Notes

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Since the number of contacts and the amount of text in the "notes" field varies, I can have anywhere from two-five records on a page. Unfortunately, records are getting split over pages: for example, I could have the company (Leading Sub Summary) and contacts (Body) on one page, and the corresponding notes (Trailing Sub Summary) on the next.

Is there any way around this without resorting to one record per page?

1. Re: Printing Sub Summary Records on the Same Page Revisited

philmodjunk Mar 11, 2013 4:20 PM (in response to KevinElder)

If there are no sliding fields used in your layout, it's possible, but takes a fair amount of work to set up.

You have to add in another sub summary part and sorting on a second "page" field with a script or possibly some calculation fields that use the number of records in each group to compute cases where a page break needs to be forced to keep as much of your group of records with sub summary parts on one page as possible.
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2. Re: Printing Sub Summary Records on the Same Page Revisited

KevinElder Mar 11, 2013 4:25 PM (in response to KevinElder)

Yeah, I don't think that's gonna work as the notes field is just one text field and could have just a few words or several sentences worth of text. As stated by the OP in the other thread (which I forgot to link to, Printing sub-summary records on the same page), there needs to be a "Don't allow sub-summary records to break across page boundaries" command.

Oh well - thanks for responding!
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