PrintOnParent option

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The "Subreport" object has a "PrintOnParent" property which can sometimes be useful. This property is False by default.

 

Usually a subreport is output as a set of bands on the basic report page. When this is so, the height of the parent band containing the "Subreport" object is not controlled by the bands in the subreport, i.e. it cannot be stretched. If the subreport "PrintOnParent" property is set to True, either in the object inspector or the context menu, the objects in the subreport are physically printed on the band which contains the "Subreport" object. This band can be made to stretch and can have stretched objects placed on it:

 

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