Columns Grouping

rbuser

I have a Report with subReports (3).
One of the reports has columns.
The data is State and Counties.
The ColumnTraversal set to left to right.
Grouping on State. OnGroupChange Start New Column.

For the most part this works fine except that when the group changes a new
page starts. The StartNewPage is NOT selected.

How can I have the Groups print continuously?

digitalmetaphors

Check to see if you have KeepTogether turned on for the group. If the group
won't fit, then it will start printing in the next available space.

Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

The KeepTogether in Groups won't stay set!

I've set the subreport KeepTogether to true. The counties print
continuously but it doesn't break on the state. The state doesn't even show
on the second and subsequent columns.

In the Object Inspector I set the KeepTogether to true for Group1 but that
also has no effect.


Gary

digitalmetaphors

Only the innermost KeepTogether group can be set if you try to set multiple
KeepTogether groups. This is a limitation of the current report engine.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

OK so we are back to my original problem. Why is a new page starting when
the group changes?

There is plenty of room on the page; almost a half a page and the second
group is only two lines.

The report only has one grouping and It won't allow KeepTogether. When I
click on it the box it reverts back to unclicked.

Gary

digitalmetaphors

The current report engine doesn't support group functionality when the
detail band is set to a left to right column traversal. Left to right is
mostly used to support label printing, sorry.

However, when I create a report like this, the detail bands print
continously, never keeping together or starting a new page/column. Place
the State dbText in the detail band, and set it to SuppressRepeatedValues =
true.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors