Report with a dynamic number of columns that could expand past 1 page...

rbuser

I'm using Report Builder for Delphi 6. And I want to create a landscape
report that could expand past one page (so that my information could
possibly grow from left to right -- more columns). Is this possible using
report builder? I don't want to have to export it directly out to an excel
spreadsheet if I don't have to. Can I create something like this?

Just a quick example...I went to print data for a group of people for each
day...but I want them to be able to choose the number off days they want to
include in the report -- so they could include 5 days or they could include
150 days. I want each day to represent a column... My question is what do I
do when there are too many columns to place on the first page....how can I
continue the columns on another page?

nicocizik

Hi Carrie,

Check out the following example below. This is a good example of how to get
a report to print pages that overflow to the right. The way the report
works is there are two subreports that display different values from the
dataset and the pages are then extracted from each subreport and reordered
to give the collated results. Hope this helps.

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/tips/SpreadSheetStyleReport.zip


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rbuser

Hi,

Is there a plan to build this functionality into RB? It seems like a fairly
common problem and would be nice to be able to do this without having to
write lines and lines of code.

Richard

nicocizik

Hi Richard,

Thanks for the suggestion.

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