What is the use of suppress in Crystal Reports? Is it possible to delete a section (page footer) in crystal report? If yes, then what is the difference between Suppress and Delete?
asked Nov 28, 2009 at 9:34 873 6 6 gold badges 15 15 silver badges 23 23 bronze badgesSurpressing can be used in formulas, to allow the developer to surpress a section if a certain citeria is met. Or you can surpress the detail of the report if you wish to show a summary report.
You can surpress the page footer.
answered Nov 28, 2009 at 10:00 Adriaan Stander Adriaan Stander 166k 31 31 gold badges 292 292 silver badges 286 286 bronze badgesYou can hide or suppress any section that you want. Hide allows for drill-down. Suppressing a section hides it and prevents drill-down.
Bare minimum, you need a report header, page header, details, page footer, and report footer sections. These can not be deleted.
You can additional sections of a given type by right-clicking the desired section and choosing 'Insert section below'. The name of the section will append a letter, starting at 'A' to the name to indicate multiple sections of the same type. If there are more than one section of a given type, then all but the last of these can be deleted.
Adding grouping adds a corresponding group header and footer sections. These behave the same way that I've discussed. Groups can be deleted.