I know part of this has been asked and answered (many times). But my question goes a tad further and I haven't been able to find a solution to what I am looking for. I would like to know if Telerik has an identical feature to Crystal Reports' Suppress. Not similar, identical.
In Crystal Reports if you Suppress a Details section the rendered report is like the section never existed in the first place. In contrast, if I Conditionally Format a Panel in Telerik, and uncheck the Visible property, the rendered report leaves empty white space where the Panel resides (I've attached some screenshots to illustrate). Not only does this break-up the flow of a well-designed report, but a low page count is important to our customers.
It has been suggested multiple times that a Telerik Panel can perform the same behavior as a Crystal Reports Details section. So hopefully I'm just missing something. Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance!
PS - I also tried setting the same Conditional Formatting on all the Fields that I want hidden.
In Crystal Reports if you Suppress a Details section the rendered report is like the section never existed in the first place. In contrast, if I Conditionally Format a Panel in Telerik, and uncheck the Visible property, the rendered report leaves empty white space where the Panel resides (I've attached some screenshots to illustrate). Not only does this break-up the flow of a well-designed report, but a low page count is important to our customers.
It has been suggested multiple times that a Telerik Panel can perform the same behavior as a Crystal Reports Details section. So hopefully I'm just missing something. Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance!
PS - I also tried setting the same Conditional Formatting on all the Fields that I want hidden.
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Hello Paul,
If you hide the Detail section in a Telerik Reporting report by setting the section Visible property to False it would not appear in the final report and no white space would be left behind.
Unlike hiding the Detail section, in a report with complex layout, changing the visibility of a report item (Panel, TextBox, etc.) does not guarantee that the space it occupies would be filled in by the items below or to the right of it.
The rules that apply to the rendering behavior are explained in the Design Considerations for Report Item Layout help article.
Also note that even though the hidden items are not visible on the report, they are still going to be processed by the reporting engine.
Regards,
Nasko
Telerik
If you hide the Detail section in a Telerik Reporting report by setting the section Visible property to False it would not appear in the final report and no white space would be left behind.
Unlike hiding the Detail section, in a report with complex layout, changing the visibility of a report item (Panel, TextBox, etc.) does not guarantee that the space it occupies would be filled in by the items below or to the right of it.
The rules that apply to the rendering behavior are explained in the Design Considerations for Report Item Layout help article.
Also note that even though the hidden items are not visible on the report, they are still going to be processed by the reporting engine.
Regards,
Nasko
Telerik
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