I have a report that is a multi-page report. By multi page I mean that each page contains different type of content so I am using the trick of using group headers with page break set before/after to simulate a multi page report.
This has worked fine so far except that now I need one of the pages to contain mailing labels. The way I've done mailing labels in the past, and the way the new label wizard does labels, is to set the detail size to the size of the label and then use the number of columns to duplicate the label for the page.
The problem with this approach for a multi page report is that I can't change the detail of just one page (at least I don't think I can). In this case, am I stuck basically having to lay out the labels for the page (I need only exactly one page of labels for this report) with textboxes and just populate each textbox probably with a loop in the report code behind?
This has worked fine so far except that now I need one of the pages to contain mailing labels. The way I've done mailing labels in the past, and the way the new label wizard does labels, is to set the detail size to the size of the label and then use the number of columns to duplicate the label for the page.
The problem with this approach for a multi page report is that I can't change the detail of just one page (at least I don't think I can). In this case, am I stuck basically having to lay out the labels for the page (I need only exactly one page of labels for this report) with textboxes and just populate each textbox probably with a loop in the report code behind?
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Hi Roy,
Thank you for contacting Telerik support.
Unfortunately currently your multicolumn task can not be solved with our reporting engine, because if you set detail section's ColumnCount property to more than one, all the report's sections (except page header and page footer) will shrink to respect the column width and you would not be able to layout the group sections on the whole page. Usage of multicolumn subreport (as a multicolumn page with labels) is not a solution too, because it would be rendered in one column only.
To achieve the desired functionality, we suggest that you use two reports - one to print all the pages except the one with labels and a second report to print the labels only in a multicolumn manner.
I hope this information helps.
Best wishes,
Ivan
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Thank you for contacting Telerik support.
Unfortunately currently your multicolumn task can not be solved with our reporting engine, because if you set detail section's ColumnCount property to more than one, all the report's sections (except page header and page footer) will shrink to respect the column width and you would not be able to layout the group sections on the whole page. Usage of multicolumn subreport (as a multicolumn page with labels) is not a solution too, because it would be rendered in one column only.
To achieve the desired functionality, we suggest that you use two reports - one to print all the pages except the one with labels and a second report to print the labels only in a multicolumn manner.
I hope this information helps.
Best wishes,
Ivan
the Telerik team
Instantly find answers to your questions at the new Telerik Support Center