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How to make the name of a column appear as many times as the column on page [message #483372]

Sun, 21 November 2010 08:34

blablared
Messages: 3
Registered: November 2010

Junior Member

Hi,
This is what i want to do:

I have a basic report looking like this:
<Column name>
value 1
value 2
value 3
.
.
.
value n

Since the column is small it can fit in a page more then one time. I know how to make it print more then once: i switch the repeating frame to print down and across and i modify the frame that contains it so the horizontal elasticity is variable.

After these changes my report looks like this:
<Column name>
value 1-----------------------value n+1-----------------------value m+1
value 2-----------------------value n+2-----------------------value m+2
value 3-----------------------value n+3-----------------------...
.------------------------------- .
.------------------------------- .
.------------------------------- .
value n-----------------------value m

What i want is my report to look like this:

<Column name>-------<Column name>------------<Column name>
value 1-----------------------value n+1-----------------------value m+1
value 2-----------------------value n+2-----------------------value m+2
value 3-----------------------value n+3-----------------------...
.------------------------------- .
.------------------------------- .
.------------------------------- .
value n-----------------------value m

Would welcome any advice on how to achieve this please.
Thank you.

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Re: How to make the name of a column appear as many times as the column on page [message #483434 is a reply to message #483372]

Mon, 22 November 2010 01:45

Littlefoot
Messages: 21823
Registered: June 2005
Location: Croatia, Europe

Senior Member
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I created a sample report based on EMP table that belongs to Scott's schema.

In order to repeat column headings, create a repeating frame that will surround column heading. Repeating frame should have the following properties set:
- Source: the same group as its column
- Print direction: across
- Vertical Elasticity: fixed
- Horizontal Elasticity: variable

I tried to illustrate it; I hope you'll get the idea:

/forum/fa/8455/0/

This is how it looks when the report is executed (obviously, you'll need to adjust heading - column alignment):

/forum/fa/8457/0/

Attachment: rep_heading_1.png
(Size: 5.83KB, Downloaded 1937 times)
Attachment: rep_heading_2.png
(Size: 7.14KB, Downloaded 1852 times)

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Re: How to make the name of a column appear as many times as the column on page [message #483530 is a reply to message #483434]

Mon, 22 November 2010 12:49

blablared
Messages: 3
Registered: November 2010

Junior Member

Hi Littlefoot, thank you for your answer. This indeed brings me close to what i want to achieve, but with one problem still.
I fallowed the same steps you described and the columns look good, but now the report continues to print blank pages except the header.
As i understand it prints the header for each record in the group that had the column.
The report i created had the query based on table EMPLOYEES belonging to HR schema.
Table has 107 records, wich will print on one page with 4 columns but the report continues till page 27 (printing the header 3 times on page 27).

Did i maybe miss something ? Or is there a way to stop the report after all records have been printed?

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Re: How to make the name of a column appear as many times as the column on page [message #483574 is a reply to message #483530]

Tue, 23 November 2010 03:13

Littlefoot
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Registered: June 2005
Location: Croatia, Europe

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Maybe you missed something.

I did that once again, and everything seems to be OK.

/forum/fa/8469/0/

Here's the report (created with Builder 10g (9.0.4) so I guess you'll be able to open it).

Attachment: head_across.rdf
(Size: 64.00KB, Downloaded 1466 times)
Attachment: rep_heading_3.PNG
(Size: 15.32KB, Downloaded 1777 times)

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Re: How to make the name of a column appear as many times as the column on page [message #483631 is a reply to message #483574]

Tue, 23 November 2010 11:09

blablared
Messages: 3
Registered: November 2010

Junior Member

Thank you very much for your help.
I got it working.
The example you uploaded was very helpful.

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