"The Cornjerker" <addoty@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I have a group header in the middle of my large report near the bottom
> of the page that I NEED to send to the top of the next page.
>
> How do I do this?
>
> Why can't I get a conditional page break?
>
> How can I page break based on a value from a field?
>
> How do I programmatically force a page break after a group footer or
> before a group header?
>
> This is ridiculous. Why is it so difficult? Why can every other
> report generator on the planet do this and RS can't? Please PLEASE
> tell my I'm missing something obvious.
>

"The Cornjerker" wrote:

> Thank you for the suggestion and I will give it a try. I ended up
> hacking a page break in by putting an extra row in and hard coding it's
> height so that it forced a natural page break. I then had an
> expression to hide it until the group I needed appeared. I'm praying
> that nothing will change in all the lines before the hack.
>
> <sarcasm>
> These various hacks, I'm sure, are the way page breaks are suppose to
> be programmatically added in software that is at the version 2 level.
> Maybe by version 5 we can actually control how the report looks.
> </sarcasm>
>
> I appolgize, but by the number of requests in this forum about page
> breaks you'd think that someone would actually FIX THE EXISTING
> PROBLEMS.
>