Idea:
Suppress everything in the section, based on your logic... then Suppress Blank Section (checkbox), instead of suppressing the section. CR has to process all the objects in the section, before the section is suppressed, hopefully solving your extra complications with full suppression.
(That is how I don't waste space with sub-reports used exclusively to pass shared variables to the main report...).
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Kevin Moyes
Technical Systems Analyst
Munjal White Consulting Co.
Toronto ON
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