Problem with a special sub report.

rbuser

Hello.
I am dealing with a specially formated report in a master detail
relantionship.
With determined group of the master group i had very diferent kind of
information depanding of it.
So in some situation i like to place them in a colunar appearance, to make
things clearer see below.

master X
detail X a
X b
X c
X d
...

my subretport should have the folowing apperarance.

a b c
d ...

That is i should move the detail set pointer inside the report.
Also i think i have to use variables to store each moment of the detail set
and then print them all.

I stopped here , could anybody help me ?
Thanks in advance.
FD

digitalmetaphors

You can create columns in the report (Report.Columns and
Report.ColumnWidth). Set the ColumnTraversal property of the detail band to
LeftToRight and the records should print as you have described.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Thanks fast replying.
But if i shoul print with the format below ?

a d

b e

c ...

With the same master detail relationship.
I am afraid column and columnwith don't give me flexibility enough, isn't it
?
FD

digitalmetaphors

Whenever possible, you will want to avoid moving the dataset pointer around
while the report is generating.

I forgot to mention that there is the ColumnPositions property, which lets
you specify where the second column begins. This should let you move the
second column closer to the first column.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

> Whenever possible, you will want to avoid moving the dataset pointer
around

I believe that it is the best aproach.
Thanks.
FD