I am not sure if this is possible but I am trying to achieve the layout in the Sample Invoice PDF attached. I have been trying to use the "Only Directly Above" sliding option but am not able to get my line items to move beyond the bottom of the text that sits on the left-hand side.

I have put the Logo and the yellow text at the top into a Header part and then placed 5 leading sub summary parts below that ... one each for the blocks of text running down the left hand side plus the label strap lines that precede each block of line items.

The line items are in their own body part with a trailing sub summary part that holds the sub-total / total fields and a footer part to hold the registered address details.

Is this even possible to get the body to slide up past some of the leading sub-summary parts (in effect causing a sort of overlapping of parts).

I have looked into turning on the 2 column option in the layout setup but this does not allow you to have uneven column widths.

Also I have made sure my body fields are set to top and left text alignment so that sliding will work.

BTW, any dotted lines you see in the PDF are handled by a container field as FM's line style options leave a lot to be desired.

Any strategies or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Toby

ExampleInvoice.pdf

Toby,

Try this previous post.

Link

Mark,

Thanks for the link.

Are you saying that sliding up based on "Only Directly Above" WILL or WILL NOT slide beyond the part boundary of the part the field is contained in?

Do I need to trick it by placing the top edges of all the text boxes running down the left-hand side in the header part?

Does this mean I need to create a calculation for each sidebar text block to work out how many paragraph returns need to be added in front to get them to line up in the correct spot.

Does this also mean that I no longer need the first 4 leading sub-summary parts as the previous fields that used to be in them are now tied to the header part?

Thanks for your assistance,

Toby

Yes, will not.

Yes, correct. *Remember to stretch the fields in the body, or other parts, and turn on the sliding to accomidate the size of the header fields expanding into these parts.

You have two choices. The first option is to create a calculation field using carriage retruns to drop the data to the correct location for variable locations. Option two is to format the field to align the text on the bottom for a fixed location.

I do not follow the forth question. If you are referring to the sub-summaries for the invoice line items, the three sub-summaries are required. If you are referring to sub-summaries for the left-hand fields, there are no sub-summarries required for them.