Re: Master-Detail Report Letters/Forms

Of course you can do it in a master detail relationship. The problem is that you actually will have to understand the layout editor, you can't just default generate it. But then, most reports cannot be simply generated cleanly.

To make things the least painful, learn how to use the additional default layout feature in the layout editor, and then you can generate each group one at a time.

This is not a package to jump into without some training or support. I am in the middle of a project that was originally done by a Reports novice. Months of work are being thrown away.

Paul Dorsey
Dulcian, Inc.

JSeeman102 <jseeman102_at_aol.com> wrote in article <19980102205200.PAA08018_at_ladder02.news.aol.com>...
> I am a newcomer to Oracle Reports 2.5, and already I am encountering an
> annoying problem. I discovered that I cannot design a form letter using
 a
> master-detail relationship. My problem is my data, which I am porting
 over
> from *.rpt (okay, I'm a dinosaur), contains several one-many relations,
 and the
> layout of the letter must reflect that. The letter contains information
 about
> three doctors, each of whom could have been educated at more than one
> institution - in some cases, five. Without using variables school1 ..
 school5,
> is there a more elegant way that I can show a doctor's training without
> resorting to multiple variables to hold the data? Thanks in advance for
 any
> help you can give me.
>
> Jeff Seeman
> 415-972-8804
>
Received on Sun Jan 04 1998 - 00:00:00 CET