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Started by cbi-idunbar, 10 Jun 2015 11:12:44 AM

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cbi-idunbar

Good morning,
Here is what we are having trouble with. At the top of our report in the header, but below a section with information and company logo, are two tables that list information that is only necessary to be printed on the first page. Below this, still in the header, are column names for the repeater table that takes up the remainder of the report. The repeater table is outside of the header. The problem is that we can't get the two tables that need to disappear to, well, disappear. I tried a conditional that should only render these tables if page number = 1, but it never returns 1. Even on the first page. The conditional is like so:

if (PageNumber()=0) then ('true') else ('false')

This has the values: 'true' and 'false'. Then we set the two tables to only render on 'true'. The problem is that this seems to never return 'true'. If I set them to only render on 'false', they always show up. If I set them to render on 'true', they never show up.

Is this failing because the two tables in question are in the header? If so, we could move them to the body, but then we'd also need to move the column headers for the repeater table. They then would also not print on subsequent pages, unless we can set them in the repeater table itself. Which I am not sure how to do.

Any help, or ideas on how better to accomplish this would be much appreciated.

Thank you.

cbi-idunbar

You can ignore this. Our database administrator found a way to make this work. I'd post the solution here, but he didn't give me all of the details.

pirx

Hey,

I have similar problem so I would be very curious about the solution.
Thanks,
P