The Summary band follows the Detail band closely

Question

I got a situation here. I have been trying to solve this problem for couple of weeks. I’m a novice at using iReport.

These days I was designing a report for a company department.

My report has only 3 bands, i.e. Title, Detail and Summary. The space these 3 bands occupy is bigger than one page. So the iReport “Helped me a favor”, it separated the Detail band and the Summary band, the Summary band was forced to start on a new page, while the Detail band was followed by a large blank area. It looked very unsightly.

Now I want the Summary band follows the Detail band closely, not just start on a new Page.

Would you please tell how to make it? Thank you for your help!

p.s. I’ve changed the Page height Property, but it doesn’t work well. I didn't checked the"Summary on a new page". When the Detail band has only several results from the datasource, the Summary band follows closely.But once it gets many results(say,15 results) from the datasource,the Summary band start on a new page.

Thank Lisa. My JRXML is simplified as follows.Forgive me for simplifying the content,for my Summary band is a little large.

<detail>
    <band height="20" splitType="Stretch">
        <textField isStretchWithOverflow="true" isBlankWhenNull="true">
            <reportElement positionType="Float" stretchType="RelativeToTallestObject" x="0" y="0" width="101" height="20" isPrintWhenDetailOverflows="true"/>
                <box>
                    <pen lineWidth="0.5"/>
                    <topPen lineWidth="0.5"/>
                    <leftPen lineWidth="0.5"/>
                    <bottomPen lineWidth="0.5"/>
                    <rightPen lineWidth="0.5"/>
                </box>
                <textElement textAlignment="Center">
                    <font fontName="楷体" size="12"/>
                </textElement>
                <textFieldExpression><![CDATA[$F{productName}]]></textFieldExpression>
            </textField>
      <! several textFields followed … >
        </band>
</detail>
<summary>
    <band height="585" splitType="Prevent">
           <! many textFields and staticTexts followed … >
    </band>
</summary>

Also -- in the Report Inspector, view the properties for your report and make sure you have not checked "Summary on a new page". — Lisa

Thomas Zimmer Thomas Zimmer · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-06T21:05:32

What keeps you from shrinking your detail band to the minimum needed size? Simply do not left any space not needed, and the summary will follow the data in detail band directly...

The Summary band follows the Detail band closely

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