Hide page footer page 2 onwards

Question

Hi
We have a report developed for a customer which has an OLE object holding a PDF image in the report's page footer.
The customer would now like this OLE's image only displayed on page 1 of the report to allow the detail section to show more data on subsequent pages.
I have tried to hide/suppress the OLE object and/or the page footer but without success. I can get the image to not show on subsequent pages but the height of the page footer remain the same throughout the report.
Effectively what I want to do is to make the height of the page footer section zero for pages 2 onwards.
How may I achieve this?
Yours in hope.
Edited by: bobjohnbarker on Sep 2, 2010 6:27 PM

Answer 1

The reason this is happening, it's because when generating a page, Crystal Reports will reserve the space for the Page Footer section first, then print in the rest of the space available the other sections information: Details, Group Header, Group Footer,... And when it arrives at the Page Footer section it will evaulate if it needs to be suppressed or not. So the space for the footer is already reserved and it only display or not the information that section contains.
For simple report, one way around it, will be to not use the Page Footer section, and instead use a second details section and conditionnally suppress and print it at the end of a page.
For example:
Details a section will contains all the database fields you want to display on your report
Details b section will contain what you want to print at the bottom of the page on page 1
Then create a conditionnal suppression for Details b section to only print once. The formula will look like:
WhilePrintingRecords;
NumberVar x := x + 1;
If x = 50 Then False Else  True
And create a conditionnal print at the bottom of section for Details b section. The formula will look like:
WhilePrintingRecords;
NumberVar x;
If x = 50 Then True Else False
On Page 1, it will print the first 50 records, then print Details b section at the bottom of the page.
On the next pages, it will not reserve any space for it since it is not a page footer.
The number 50 used is only an example, and it will need to be adjusted for your report. It could be 20, 10,...
Hope this help!
Patrick