iReports: Shrink section to fit

Classic Servoy
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In working with iReports, I could find no way to shrink a report section to fit the size of the data for the current record.

For example, if you have a Notes field in the detail part. Obviously, as you print out the information about each client (grouping involved), the Notes will very in length (some have lengthy notes while others have none). Rather than end up with a report that has all kinds of whitespace, how does one shrink the section?

I know the field can be stretched to fit the available area if necessary, but found this causes problems because if you have two fields that have variable data lengths, the one field above the other field will overlap it in your output (imagine two notes fields in the detail area that have varying lengths depending on the record).

Anyone have any ideas?

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Simply making a field/section as small as possible should do.

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I think I had messed up with the item properties, and needed to float the items rather than fix them relative to the top or bottom. Then I can apparently stretch the fields and keep the labels with them.

I seem to have that working now. Thanks.