Base Report Detail Keep Together seems not to work?

SonomaCharles · January 16, 2026, 6:00pm

The subject pretty much says it all. I define a report and specify Keep Together Yes for the Detail but the report detail splits across pages. What do I need to do?

Thanks,

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Charles

RobertG · January 16, 2026, 8:50pm

It’s this old bug: 45338 – EDITING ReportBuilder: 'Details - General Keep Together' without visible effect

SonomaCharles · January 16, 2026, 11:55pm

Thanks. Can you suggest a workaround? I would just as soon not get into Groups if I could help it – this product is complex (and, unfortunately, buggy) enough without taking on a new subject.

Approximately – I am still coding – report detail will be about 2.5" and there will be no more than 18 detail sections, so I guess if I count carefully I can make sure that an exact integral number of detail sections fit on one page.

Any otter ideas?

RobertG · January 17, 2026, 6:50am

I would use Detail section only for content, which will be shown in one row. This can’t be splitted.
For content, which shouldn’t be splitted, I’m using groups. Group header and footer will work with “keep together”.

SonomaCharles · January 17, 2026, 3:08pm

Thanks. I have a simple solution. My detail is exactly 2.4 inches high. I set the page margins to make the usable area exactly 9.6 inches. Voila! Each detail section is complete on a single page.

Negatives:

It requires some arithmetic if you make a significant change.
My reports are around 5 pages. For a very long report, the fact that the printer driver uses inches but LO uses millimeters internally might create a rounding error that eventually put the detail a little off the page boundary. I don’t know. The nature of my report is such that it will never grow beyond 4 or 5 pages.

Hokey, but it is simple and it works.

Thanks all,
Charles