Page Footer Supress Does Not Work Properly

[fabiobilicki]

This is a problem I've had since 2011 at the beginning of Crystal Reports, and it still occurs today in the 2020 SP4/P4 version (14 year of problem).

When a page footer is defined and suppressed without formula, the detail takes advantage of the entire sheet with the records.

When it is suppressed via formula, it does not take over the space.

SAP Crystal Reports 

See code Archive RPT example 

Rgs

Fabio

SAP 10 FP2502 / SQL SERVER 2019 / SAP HANA

[DonWilliams]

From SAP Tech Support Resource for Crystal Reports:

This is normal behavior, and always worked this way because when a page is generated for a report in Crystal Reports, it first reserves spaces for the Page Header and Page Footer sections when:

- It is not suppressed; or

- conditionally suppressed  

  ( Because we do not know until we print the Page Footer if it should be suppressed, or not, therefore we need to reserve the space )

To help with this situation when there is many conditionally suppressed Page Footer, we introduced a while back the option “Reserve Minimum Page Footer”

See if that option helps

[Johan_Hakkesteegt]

Hi,

Admittedly not wonderfull, but also quite common with SAP. A product developer's time is expensive, so as long as minor bugs can be handled with a work around, the product owner team will elect not to fix it.

The workaround here would be a dummy formula, something like "if 1 = 1 then suppress".

Regards,

Johan