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Monyake,

I'm struggling to understand why our reports are printing empty bands. My report structure is as follows;

PageHeader
DataBand [Dept]
DataBand [Dept Item/s]
Header
DataBand [Data List]

Our challenge is having a report that displays Dept that has no Dept Item and Data List (an empty dept.).
Is there a way of not displaying those Departments that do not have any items (even though the Print if Detail Empty is set to False).

Stimulsoft replied by saying this err is not configurable, but desgnwise is there a way of getting around it? I've tried a gazillion ways of structuring the data HEEELP!

Thanks

Monyake wrote:Monyake,

I'm struggling to understand why our reports are printing empty bands. My report structure is as follows;

PageHeader
DataBand [Dept]
DataBand [Dept Item/s]
Header
DataBand [Data List]

Our challenge is having a report that displays Dept that has no Dept Item and Data List (an empty dept.).

What is the relationship between Dept Item and Data List. Are both of these data bands children of the master Dept?
And you want to print Dept even if it does not have a Dept Item or Data List? If so you need to set Print If Detail Empty to True for this.

Monyake wrote: Is there a way of not displaying those Departments that do not have any items (even though the Print if Detail Empty is set to False).

This sounds like the opposite above, is this correct? you want to hide any Master Depts if they do not contain Dept Items or Data List? If this is the case then you need to set Print If Detail Empty to False and make sure the Master component and Data Relations are set for the Dept Item and Data List Databands.