I have a detail band with text fields and a table. In the designer view I have fit all the band, but when I see the preview the lowest text field is higher than the first text field in the next band (i.e. I have empty space between band 1 and band 2).
The empty space is due by the table, in fact if I remove it I have no empty space. Below the designer view and preview.
The question is: how I can avoid the empty space between the bands? Thanks.
EDIT2: Now that the report is shown, it's clear. Make the table bigger in the report layout. Stretch it all the way to the bottom. When you don't, JR is careful to include as much space below it as you have left there.
EDIT: I think the key issue is that the band height should be "20" to match the height of the elements in it.
Old answer containing trivia that might or might not matter:
Some of your "text fields" are textFields. This is good. Some of your "text fields" are staticText. This is bad. Convert the static text to real text fields. You can right-click them and automatically transform them.
stretchType is bad. Turn that off. (Actually, it's good and useful... but it's not what you want.)
isStretchWithOverflow is good. Turn it on. Your text says that it's already on, but your code shows that it is not.
isPrintWhenDetailOverflows is bad. Turn it off. Your text makes no mention of it, but your code shows that it is on. (It's probably irrelevant... but you should turn it off to be clear that it's not what you think it is.)
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I'm on Win10, using Acrobat Pro DC 2021.011... to edit and Reader DC (same version) to test.
From experience and from reading forums etc, forms in these apps are maddening... but I have not been able to find any discussion (or solutions) to the following behavior...
The form I'm building for other employees' use has a large edit text box set to Multi-line and Allow Rich Text Formatting. It is set to a default font, Calibri and size 50pt. For most situations this will work for them; provides 2-3 lines for a short product description. But occasionally they want a smaller font and more lines... They know how to get the ctrl+e properties bar. But in my testing of this alternative situation they'll need sometimes, I'm finding it's impossible to get the smaller font size and more lines to work. Here's my process.
tab into text box. Ctrl+E for properties bar.
before typing I set the font size to 24
then I type in my 4 lines of text
then I tab to my next form field...
and kaboom... the field I just filled...it's line height is so large it's pushed some of the content invisible. I assume this is coming from the field's default font size, 50
And if I try to adjust the line height, by selecting all the text and then choosing in More...>Form Field Text Properties>Paragraph>Line Spacing
If I set it to Single and click Close/click into another field I get the very large leading (presumably for 50pt font (same as pic above after point 5)
If I choose Exactly and set to point size slightly larger, click Close/out of field, I get another ridiculous result where the 2/3 line have the height I set, but the space between the 1 & 2 second line is way too much and the space between the last line and 3rd line is way too small...
before tabbing or clicking out of field to another field
Good lord.. what is that! 3 different leading values in the same field; just after applying 1 value to all lines, all text in the field...
It makes no sense... it doesn't look like it regards your input at all, and just comes up with it's own random leading... I've fiddled with Space before/after and combinations of Line Height and nothing comes close to what we need... At this point I'm convinced the Acrobat tools for a stylizing text in a multi-line, allow formatting text field are useless. I'd be better off with my employees they can't format anything, ever. Just type one line and hit Tab or Enter...
What is going on! I'm trying to make a simple fillable form for other employees to use, but this kind of behavior makes that impossible (It's enough of a stretch to teach them to use the ctrl+E and do some styling of their text but this is bonkers and completely unteachable... there's not rhyme or pattern to teach!)
Hope someone can help or has seen this behavior too.
In my main report preview and exported PDF file of it as well I have a unused white space between details sections (the section with the grid starts from next page) as shown in the following image. Off course I want that white space to be removed.
I tried with unchecking the "Can Grow" and "Keep Together" in the sections which contains grid subreport (as well as in the subreport itself), but unfortunately I have no result. In case when I have for example 3 rows in the grid section, the section starts right under the chart section above, but in case when it must go to the next page, it makes that white space.
And to mention this, in both subereports in theirs sections, I have suppressed all the unnecessary sections, basically I am showing only the ones with the data.
Thanks.
I solved this. I checked "Can Grow", and deselect the Keep Object together in the subreport.
And now the grid works fine! Starts at the end on the graph, and continues on to the next page. Here is what I done:
I have a report displaying rows with text fields with variable length (I use the Can Grow option). I use a Box for the details. My problem is that when the last text field cannot fit into to the box on the bottom of the page, a empty space is left, and the new row begins on next page. Unchecking the option Keep Object Together on the fields, didn't solve the problem and if it did I don't want the content of the text field to break across pages.
My question is: Is it possible to auto-re-size box height depending on rows content, so I can avoid empty spaces at the bottom on every page (doesn't look very nice).
Thanks in advance.
There are three things I can think of that might help.
As you said, you can limit the maximum size of a "can grow" field. To the right of the can grow checkbox (in CR designer) there is a "Maximum number of lines" value that defaults to 0 (no limit). You can set that to however many lines you like.
The details section itself has a setting for "keep together" too -- right-click the details section label and go to the section expert. If you uncheck it there the details section will start on the bottom of the page and continue on the next one.
Look at the page footer section, it is printed at the bottom of each page, and if it is large, it takes away from the available space for the data. Group footers, if you have any, could give you the same problem.
Is there a good way to make horizontal lines actually line up in Crystal Reports? I can select text and field objects, right-click, and do various sizing and alignments. But that's not an option with a line. I need header fields underlined (and for whatever reason, our standard says to NOT use underline), and I want them to line up across the report.
It's a pain, but I've found one way to do it.
Both field and line items have a right-click menu option called "Size and Position". It doesn't take just any value, especially with Snap to Grid turned on (and doesn't always take exactly what you choose with it not turned on), but you can carefully make sure each line has the same Y value (for horizonal lines). And, if you want them to align and be the same length as the field headers they are underlining, compare each header field X and Width values, and make each line also match that.
In design mode, you can add horizontal guide lines by clicking in the ruler (the vertical one) fields will get sticky to it.
You can also select several fields, right click "Align > Bottoms" and them move the fields to the guide lines.
You can also format a single field to "lock its position and size", then Align the others to it
Another way is to select all the lines you want to left align, move them to the far left with the left cursor key until they hit the left margin and keep pressing the left key until they all align themselves. Just a trick!
Put a bottom border on the header Text Object.
I have a report where I am using colored boxes to delineate columns. To accomplish this, I've run the boxes from the Group Header all the way down to the Report Footer. Crystal seems to enjoy making the boxes "bleed" up and down the page so that they seem to print wherever they want in the Header and Footer.
I got the idea to use other solid white boxes to control this and it works, except when Crystal adds more filler space when "Keep Group Together" is used. For example, when the next group won't fit so is moved to the next page. This space doesn't belong to any actual Report Section. Unfortunately, if I uncheck "Keep Group Together", I get other formatting problems so that's not an option. Any ideas of how I can get this formatting under control?
The solution seems to be to not span the colored columns into the Report Footer section. For some reason, they're fine when spanning groups and details, but as soon as it hits the RF it explodes.
Instead, I just created new colored column boxes and lined them up in the RF separately. It's behaving itself now.
Try marking your whiteout box Extend to Bottom of Section when Printing.
I'm guessing here: your column boxes are marked Extend to Bottom of Section when Printing, and they're getting extended, but your whiteout box is not.