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September 26, 2013
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Page Footer whitespace

  • September 26, 2013
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I have an invoice report that had N number of line items with N number of lines of description per line item. The invoice displays all of the line items, and then at the bottom of the last page, it provides a signature block for the customer to sign. Here is my problem: If I put the signature block in the page footer, it's displayed at the bottom - which I want - but repeated on every page. If I put the signature block in the report footer, it's displayed on the last page - which I want - but immediately following the last line item. I need it at the bottom of the last page only. The closest I have gotten is to try and predict the number of page that I will have and then hide the page footer until (what I think will be) the last page. However, this still have the page footer whitespace to show up which isn't right.

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EddieLotter
Inspiring
September 26, 2013

Are you using the "Print When Condition" of the Page Footer itself, or of a field in the Page Footer?

September 27, 2013

The whitespace is the height of the page footer showing on the pages even the whole band is hidden based on a varivable (Print When Condition).

I saw the same reported article on this. The guy eventually changed to another reporting tool. I still have high hopes into figuring a solution on this. Hope I could find some help here. :-)

EddieLotter
Inspiring
September 30, 2013

I can confirm that even if the page footer is set to print only when a condition is true, all pages reserve the size of the footer.

What you can do is put your signature block fields in the "Watermark" band and set them to only print on the last page. Since the watermark can print anywhere on the page you can put the fields in the exact positions you want them to appear on the page.

If the signature block has a lot of fields, you can conveniently put them in a subreport and put the subreport in the Watermark band. That way you only need to set the print condition on the subreport rather than all the fields.