Color disappear in preview mode

[zab]

Hello

I have a report that show shipping of many items. I have 4 fields for 4 different shipping, this report will be printed so the shipping guy can write how many items he send in shipping A , shipping B, shipping C and the last column is to total remaining....

Now like for the portals, I have alternate the colors of the fields A B C D. In browse mode it look like 4 columns alternating between gray and white. In preview mode if there is no number written in the field the color doesn't show. Why is that? is there a way that the report will show and print the fields colors (columns) wether it is empty or not?

Screen shot BrowseMode

Screen shot Preview mode

linked from my dropbox

Thank you.

Isabelle

[zab]

I found a solution. By adding a rectangular colored object with it's height 1 px taller than the part but exceeding at the bottom of the part; the color appear and print well in preview mode. The end is a bit sloppy but not so bad. That'll do.

I applied a sliding up based on object above , it the rectangle doesn't exceed the part, the part did not slide up but the color was visible.

Weird.