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Contents
Before You Start
This How To assumes that you are using a report that accesses the CablesCollection.
General Information
Without taking the following steps, if you pad a report with empty records you will see any formatting characters displayed in the padded records as follows:
Overview
We will need to create a formatting rule that can be applied to the various controls on the page that we want to hide when empty
- Create our formatting rule.
- Apply it to each control that we want to hide when empty
- Set the detail area to Keep Together
Details
- Open the report to modify and switch to the [Cable Data Selector] tab (at the top).
- Enter a count of > 1 in the Pad With Empty Records control.
- Switch to Preview and verify that your report is padded with empties (like above).
- Switch to [Design] view tab (at the bottom left) and slide out the Properties window and pin it open.
Create the Formatting Rule
- Open the Condition Editor by clicking the buttons shown above.
- Enter the condition: IsNullOrEmpty([SRCSys]) Or IsNullOrEmpty([DestSys]) and dismiss the dialog.
- If our condition is met we need to set the Visible property to False(no) and dismiss the dialog.
- Dismiss the remaining dialog.
Applying the Formatting Rule
- Select the control that we want to hide when empty
Preview to Verify
- Click the [Preview] tab (at the bottom).
