Suppress section when exporting or sending to printer

Hi,I haven't been able to find anything in the help, kbase etc. so I thought I'd ask here - is it possible to suppress a section ONLY when exporting or sending to a printer?I have been using the webelements functionality and added a mini-dashboard to my report (as a separate header) - and onscreen everything is great. But I don't want that 'dashboard' included in the output when I send the report to the printer or when I export (e.g. to PDF where it shows up as HTML tags).When I looked to see how to suppress a section, i couldn't find anything about those particular conditions at all - or am I missing something?Or do you think there is a way to 'trick' the output by using sub-reports somehow - I haven't really used them so I'm not sure how they 'interact' with the main report or what is exported etc.Any ideas/suggestions welcome....:-)

to get your suggestion heard, check out the customer experience portion of the business objects web site at <a href="http://support.businessobjects.com/contact_support/customer_first_feedback.asp">http://support.businessobjects.com/contact_support/customer_first_feedback.asp</a>i know that others have requested this but the more that request it i think the better...i've requested this feature myself.regarding the webelements issue, what you can do is put your webelements controls on a separate report, or "jump page" that acts as a custom prompt page for the report. the user first opens up the jump page, and then applies the desired values and the submit button or link will hit the target report that does not have any controls on it. this way you still have a custom parameter page but the target report is printer friendly and export friendly.

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