example-of-anchor

Anchors are used to determine the vertical and horizontal positioning of a child object relative to its parent.  The end of the anchor with a symbol on it is attached to the parent object..

Since the size of some layout objects may change when the report runs (and data is actually fetched), you need anchors to define where you want objects to appear relative to one another.  An anchor defines the relative position of an object to the object to which it is anchored.  Positioning is based on the size of the objects after the data has been fetched rather than on their size in the editor.

It should also be noted that the position of the object in the Layout editor effects the final position in the report output.  Any physical offset in the layout is incorporated into the percentage position specified in the Anchor property sheet.

To,
&<cfirstname>
Congratulations, On becoming the member of the British library.
state of art technology enables members to issue books from any
of the branches across the globe.
You can issue books belonging to any of the following categories:
Classics
Fiction
Romance
Humor
Psychology
You will reveive your identity card within 10 days of issue of
membership
Thanking you
Your’s sincerly
MrKR
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To,
&<cfirstname>
Congratulations, On becoming the member of the British library.
state of art technology enables members to issue books from any
of the branches across the globe.
You will reveive your identity card within 10 days of issue of
membership
Thanking you
Your’s sincerly
MrKR
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            In the layout shown above, there are 3 paragraphs in the letter addressed to the members of the library. the three paragraphs are separate boilerplate
objects, which are of fixed size. their positions are directly related to the enclosing repeating frames. in the letter, the display of the 2nd paragraph is based on the age of the members. That is, by applying conditional formatting
the boilerplate is hidden if members’ age happens to be below 12 yrs.
due to the condition specified, the second paragraph is notprinted when members age is below 12
how ever the position of the third paragraph remains the same
This extra space can be supressed by creating an anchor from the top edge of the third paragraph to the top edge of the
second paragraph.
to do so select the anchortool and click and drag the anchor from the third paragraph to the second and double click the
second paragraph to created the anchor.
This supress the spaces between 1 and the 3rd paragraphs but the gap continues. to over come this, change the collapse verticlally
property of the anchor to ‘Yes’