Question

Ok I’m making my first report from scratch so I’m fairly new to this. I have a report with a subreport I’m working in. This subreport only uses data from one table. Right now I have a group header/details/group footer where it drops in each row from the table on a separate row…I have it set up with a box around the different header/details sections so it forms a grid with a line in between each record.

I need to set up another details section where it splits up the records based on a criteria I choose. Say there is a database field called order and it is from 1-7. How would I go about making sure the records that are only in between say 1-4 are in this first group where it is currently dropping all the records, and then put the rest 5-7 in another identical details section? Would I use a group selection formula in the group selection and if so how would I define it and the two different sections so each one knows which records to use from that table?

Answer 1

You could use a supression formula, with two identical group sections. On the first one, the supression formula would kick in for order >= 5, so the 5,6,7 rows are hidden. In the other, you’d use order < 5 so this second section is hidden when order is 1,2,3,4.

That duplicates the report logic in the two sections, but does give the effect of splitting up the two sections.