Issue with Column footer and Summary bands
There really is not much of a solution to this at the moment as it seems to be by-design and not a bug (personally I think they should have an option for this). Your options at the moment though are:
- Create a Report Group (this is essentially a dummy report group,
doesn't really matter). Move your
Column Footer
contents into theGroup Footer
band, and leave your Summary in theSummary
band. This seemed to work in my limited tests, and I would try it first. - Set
Float Column Footer
andSummary on new Page
to true under the main report properties. This has the unfortunate side effect that the summary will always be printed on a second page regardless if everything could fit on one. - Set
Float Column Footer
to true and move yourSummary
section to theLast Page Footer
band. This means it will only be printed once, but the content will be oriented towards the bottom of the last page.
Edit: For the shed some light on this part of the question. It is by design. The Column Footer is seen/treated as essentially a specialized Page footer. So body content (detail band, summary band, etc.) are placed on the page above it always. The only time it does not seem to happen is when the summary is printed on a new page, after the last Column Footer has been printed. So it is by design.