Suppressing a record

Question

Does anyone know of a simple way of suppressing a record if a certain criteria is met?
I've seen how format triggers suppress individual values or can blank out a line, but how can you remove an unwanted record entirely?
One idea I had was to added another child query that will test if a specific condition is met and if so, return a NULL to hide that record. It seems like their should be an easier way.
Any ideas or help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by [email protected]:
Does anyone know of a simple way of suppressing a record if a certain criteria is met?
I've seen how format triggers suppress individual values or can blank out a line, but how can you remove an unwanted record entirely?
One idea I had was to added another child query that will test if a specific condition is met and if so, return a NULL to hide that record. It seems like their should be an easier way.
Any ideas or help would be appreciated.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Is there a chance that you can put the condition in the where clause of the query?
If not you can use a format trigger on the repeating frame and return false from the trigger when the condition is met. This will keep that row instance from showing up in the report. Rememember to return true for the others. For ex:
IF :your_condition = 'F' then
return false;
ELSE
return true;
END IF;
return true;
Hope this helps.
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