Vertical Borders

[adyf]

Is it possible to achieve an unbroken border (manual border and not field border) across the header, sub summary, body and footer irrespective of the number of records on display (see attached)?

I can only achieve an unbroken border when there are four records on display. Each part has it's own border, that had to be slighlty longer than the part in order for the line to be unbroken.

Thanks in advance.

[Lee Smith]

do you mean this?

https://fmhelp.filemaker.com/help/16/fmp/en/#page/FMP_Help%2Fremoving-blank-spaces.html

[Steve Martino]

I think he would want to go into the inspector, create a header with a blue border top, left, right.  Create a body part with borders on left and right only, create a footer with borders on left, bottom, right.

[adyf]

23 hours ago, Lee Smith said:

do you mean this?

https://fmhelp.filemaker.com/help/16/fmp/en/#page/FMP_Help%2Fremoving-blank-spaces.html

 

21 hours ago, Steve Martino said:

I think he would want to go into the inspector, create a header with a blue border top, left, right.  Create a body part with borders on left and right only, create a footer with borders on left, bottom, right.

Lee/Steve,

Thanks for your replies. I didn't think it was a case of removing blank spaces, more a workround of getting the left and right hand borders to extend the whole length of the body irrespective of the number of records. I may be wrong however.

As Steve suggests, that is how the layout is set up, with a header and footer border, with a seperate border for a sub summary and the body. The sub summary is also set to break before each occurrence, if this should make a difference to the border.

If I can't get the border to close up, I could abandon it. I was just trying to replicate a form as close as I could to the original that I am required to complete on an annual basis.

[TobiasLiebhartKoschierSE]

You could use a trailing grand summary and a background image that contains these exact lines. But this is a hassle to get done properly.

Edited March 9, 2020 by TobiasLiebhartKoschierSE