How to hide empty subreports?

[jori0001]

hi!
i work with crystal reports 8.5 and have a question about it.
how can i hide empty subreports ? there is now feature included which can handle this.
maybe somebody can help me with my problem.
thx

[DoPLeGaNgA]

Format subreport, click the subreport tab and click supress blank subreport.

[jori0001]

thank you for your answer. I think this option is not available in version 8.5.

my reports looks like this

http://www.bilderupload.org/070105/Bbf8ZY5g.JPG

when I click on it with the right mouse button and choose format i get this

http://www.bilderupload.org/070105/viDj0VW7.JPG

and when I click subreport

http://www.bilderupload.org/070105/bZHzfur2.JPG

do you have more ideas?

[jori0001]

How can I use a variable of a subreport in the main report? if I could check if the variable of the subreport is NULL I could suppress the subreport.

[jori0001]

Ok, now I can suppress the content of the subreport. but the subreport itselfe is stille there. the border is still there and the other subreports don't move to the suppressed subreport's postion. any ideas?

http://www.bilderupload.org/070108/izPwWsxI.jpg

[Rashmi22]

You can suppress the border of the sub-report.Right-click on sub-report in design mode,select 'Borders and Colors' option. Set all the Line-Style to 'None'.

If you have 'only' the sub-report in the Section, then you can do
Format Section->Suppress Blank Section

Rashmi

[jori0001]

Thanks for your answer, but that doesen't resolve the problem. now the borders are suppressed, but the subreport among doesen't move up. the blank space seems to be reserved for the suppressed subreport. it gives me the willies.
isn't it possible to use a variable from the subreport in the mainreport? then I could use the function "suppress (no drilldown)" and in my opinion it should work.