Re: Multiple Columns in REPORTS

From: Paul Dorsey <pdorsey.dulcian_at_worldnet.att.net>
Date: 26 Aug 1998 02:33:17 GMT
Message-ID: <6rvs5d$84r_at_bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net>


On the repeating group specify the print direction to be down/across. That should do it.

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Paul Dorsey
Dulcian, Inc.
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Ed Jennings wrote in message <35E34778.2E996836_at_mindspring.com>...

>I have a very straight forward report in REPORTS 3.0. It retrieves
>sales figures from a transaction table. The only column being returned
>is the item category, coupled with a count(*), and grouped by the
>category. With nearly 1500 category codes, the report is extremely
>lengthy, but also very narrow. It would be great if REPORTS allowed for
>multiple columns on a single page (like a word processor). The entire
>report would hen only be a few pages. As yet, I've been unable to
>figure out a way to do this. Has anyone run accross this issue before?
>Has anyone solved this problem? What I want is something like this:
>
>CATEGORY COUNT CATEGORY COUNT CATEGORY COUNT
>-------------------------------------------------------------------
>A 5 D 11 G 9
>B 7 E 19 H 6
>C 10 F 3 I 99
>
>
>TIA
>Ed Jennings
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>jenningse_at_mindspring.com
Received on Wed Aug 26 1998 - 04:33:17 CEST

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