Dynamic group header changes

[Marshall Long]

Howdy,

I am trying to see if a way currently exists to allow dynamic groupheader text changes.  Specifically, I have the following scenario:

I am using C# in a Windows environment with IE8.

I have a subreport that has several lines of header followed by a HtmlTextBox that contains text entered by the user and can span to more than one page.  Users have requested that when the print takes more than 1 page that not only does the groupheader section repeat on every page (which I was able to do via the PrintOnEveryPage property) but that the pages after the first one have a <continued> added to them.

Is there a way to do this that I haven't been able to find.  If not, is it possible in a later release?

Thanks

[Peter]

Hello Marshall Long,

Data processing and paging are two separate processes and as explained in the Understanding Report Sections help article, the paging of a report strongly depends on the format it is rendered to, and that is why page sections and their items are processed by the corresponding rendering extension after the report data has been processed, so the Page Sections (Page headers/footers) are not related to the report itself, but are relative to the margins of the report's media, i.e. to the paper or screen. Thus conditional hiding of report item per page is only possible for the Page Header/Footer items and because those sections are available in the master report our suggestion is to add a Page Header/Footer section with the continue Textbox. Then to conditionally hide the Textbox on the first page you have to add the following TextBox Binding:

Property path	Expression
Visible	= PageNumber<>1

Greetings,
Peter
the Telerik team

[Juan Sola]

Hi Peter,

I am trying to solve a similar issue as described by Marshall and had a little trouble following your reply.  I have a Group that has Detail that could cross pages (ie SampleContentGroup7 starts on Page 3 but its Detail is so long it crosses to Page 4 when processed), the GroupHeader is set to print on every page.  We would like to append " (continued)"  text to the GroupHeader text anytime the GroupHeader is printed on an additional page.  So in this case the GroupHeader text would be "Section 7" on Page 3 and "Section 7 (continued)" on Page 4.  Is this something that should be set at design time or perhaps handled programmatically during report processing?

 

Thanks

[Hinata]

Hi Juan

 

This issue has been discussed a lot in the forums. You can check the suggestions here:

http://www.telerik.com/blogs/reset-pagenumber-per-report-group

http://www.telerik.com/forums/make-the-group-header-different-if-it-s-continued-on-the-next-page

http://www.telerik.com/forums/adding-continued-to-a-multiple-page-report