hiding a label in a report

[angie]

I am tryingto hide a label on a report if a field is $0.00, I tired the following but itis not working
I have putit in the detail of the report where the field and label is in the eventformat.

Private SubDetail_Format(Cancel As Integer, FormatCount As Integer)
IfNz(Me.FinancedPrice, " ") = " " Then Me.Label163.Visible =False
End If
End Sub

not sure what I am doing wrong. I am wanting it to hide three different labels but not sure what to do .



the labels are label163 label 101 label 102 the field on the report is financedprice and the default value is $0.00

Thank you

[davegri]

Try this to take care of nulls:

If Len(Me.FinancedPrice & vbnullstring) = 0 Then Me.Label163.Visible =False

Another way:

If Nz(Me.FinancedPrice, 0) = 0 Then Me.Label163.Visible =False

If the default value can be relied on to be zero and not null then

If Me.FinancedPrice= 0 Then Me.Label163.Visible =False

[angie]

I did thefollowing and it hide the label, but it hides it even if the amount in thefields is greater than 0
I think Ineed a else code not sure

Private SubReport_Load()
IfNz(Me.FinancedPrice, 0) = 0 Then Me.Label163.Visible = False
IfNz(Me.CashPrice, 0) = 0 Then Me.Label164.Visible = False
IfNz(Me.EstPayments, 0) = 0 Then Me.Label91.Visible = False

End Sub

[davegri]

OK, this code will explicitly set the property:

Private sub Report_Load()
If Nz(Me.FinancedPrice, 0) = 0 Then 
    Me.Label163.Visible = False
else 
    Me.Label163.visible = true
endif
If Nz(Me.CashPrice, 0) = 0 Then 
    Me.Label164.Visible = False
else
    Me.Label164.Visible = true
end if
If Nz(Me.EstPayments, 0) = 0 Then 
    Me.Label91.Visible = False
else
    Me.Label91.Visible = true
End if
End Sub

If this doesn't work, then try putting the code in the Report_Open event instead.

[angie]

it removed the label on true or false statement
I tried on open and load event

[Micron]

First, I'm pretty sure a report is similar to a form in that the controls don't hold values in the Open event, so trying to reference a value On Open won't work.
Second, a report is like a continuous form in that a control only really exists once, so if the logic satisfies the condition even once, all iterations of that control will be affected.
A report does have a Detail Format event (which I believe only fires in Print Preview) but I still don't think the logic will affect only labels where a record satisfies the logic. Now the report Paint or Retreat events might work, but I can't remember if I've ever used either, so I don't know.

You may have to resort to conditional formatting, which will require you to change the label to a textbox as labels don't accept cf.

[angie]

First, I'm pretty sure a report is similar to a form in that the controls don't hold values in the Open event, so trying to reference a value On Open won't work.
Second, a report is like a continuous form in that a control only really exists once, so if the logic satisfies the condition even once, all iterations of that control will be affected.
A report does have a Detail Format event (which I believe only fires in Print Preview) but I still don't think the logic will affect only labels where a record satisfies the logic. Now the report Paint or Retreat events might work, but I can't remember if I've ever used either, so I don't know.

You may have to resort to conditional formatting, which will require you to change the label to a textbox as labels don't accept cf.

Could An event in the financedprice text box work? that if the amount is null than label is hidden but if there is an amount in the text box than label is visible. I could do the same for cashprice and estpayment

[Micron]

WRT my 2nd comment. I based that on a prior attempt which I couldn't get to work, so I wasn't just spouting off. In the meantime, I played around with cf, and did a little research which indicated what you're trying to do should work. Tried again, and all of a sudden it started working, so I have no idea what changes made that happen. If it's not working for you, then perhaps your test for the control value isn't quite right. Not sure what

it removed the label on true or false statement

means.

If you want to post a zipped copy of the db (strip down the copy if it contains personal data) I'll take a look at it.
EDIT:
For my case, it seems that the detail section's On Format event isn't firing unless I switch from design to print preview. Very odd.
OK - figured out that one too. The default view was Report View. Since it was only 1 page, I didn't notice.

[Gicu]

Hi Angie,

In these cases I try to let the data do the heavy work. Try to remove the labels and incorporate the label captions in the control source property of the related textboxes - the nice thing now is that you can set the font of the string portion whatever you like it (bold, bigger font, etc.) to emulate a label.
So in your case the control source for the FinancedPrice" text box would be ="YourCaptionForLabel163" + [FinancedPrice]. The + operator will then do the work and make the control source null when any of the operands is null (in your case the FinancedPrice).

Cheers,
Vlad

[angie]

OK, this code will explicitly set the property:

Private sub Report_Load()
If Nz(Me.FinancedPrice, 0) = 0 Then 
    Me.Label163.Visible = False
else 
    Me.Label163.visible = true
endif
If Nz(Me.CashPrice, 0) = 0 Then 
    Me.Label164.Visible = False
else
    Me.Label164.Visible = true
end if
If Nz(Me.EstPayments, 0) = 0 Then 
    Me.Label91.Visible = False
else
    Me.Label91.Visible = true
End if
End Sub

If this doesn't work, then try putting the code in the Report_Open event instead.

good morning, could please explain the code above please. If I wanted to say if the field is null than hide label but if field is not null show label, could I just change the 0 to null and not null?
thank you

[isladogs]

The Nz function is designed to deal with exactly this situation.
If there is a null value it is 'replaced' with 0 to allow the code to work

If you try your own suggestion, you'll soon realise the answer

[Gicu]

Angie,

The code you have would not work in the Report_Load event. It will need to be moved to the format or print event of the section containing the controls (the text boxes with the values and the associated labels). Have you tried my suggestion of eliminating the labels and incorporating their caption in the control source properties of the textboxes?

Cheers,
Vlad

[angie]

Its the same for me. in report view it did not show correctly, but if I switched to print view it was correct.
I guess there is no way to fix this, but at least it works. Thank you I will keep on trying to find a way to do it... Thank you

[Micron]

The format event won't work in report view as noted on post 6. For that view try the other events, also mentioned there.