"tabular vertical" layout for report wizard

rbuser

Hi,

I wrote a custom wizard and now want to offer a new layout which should
be a mixture betweeen the existing vertical and tabular layout. I need
to display the field names on the left and all the values to their right
so it becomes tabular vertical so to say.
Therefore I had a look at the exisiting layout definitions and am
wondering now how to get all the values for 1 field first, then the next
set of values for the second field etc. to be able to realise this new
layout?! Is this possible somehow?

Cheers
Merrit

nicocizik

Hi Merrit,

ReportBuilder is not designed to display data traversed horizontally. You
could get to this effect by creating Left To Right traversing columns. This
however is a very restricted feature in ReportBuilder and should only be
used with simple reports.

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

Hi Nico,

do you have an example of how to this with the columns? I'd like to give
it a try...

Thanks
Merrit

nicocizik

Hi Merrit,

It is simply a matter of creating a multiple column report and setting the
ColumnTraversal property of the DetailBand to ctLeftToRight. Be aware
however that this is a very limited feature in ReportBuilder. Intermediate
to advanced reports containing multiple groups and subreports tend to cause
problems.

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

Thanks,

This did the trick... Can I specify only to display the field names in
the first column?

Cheers
Merrit

nicocizik

There is no concept of a column header with horizontal columns in
ReportBuilder. You can try placing the field name to the left side of the
detail band and set it's visibility to false when you print the second -
last record as a workaround.

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com