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Quote aepstein83 Replybullet Topic: Conditional column breaks
    Posted: 23 Oct 2012 at 5:16pm
Hi - can anyone help me with conditional column breaks? Currently I have 5 groups on one page, each group in it's one column. I need to add another group to the page so I need to have two groups in one columns - but the rest of the report needs to maintain the one group per column format.

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Quote comatt1 Replybullet Posted: 24 Oct 2012 at 2:56am
My guess is you would have to use a subreport, that is how I would go about it.

or maybe, create two columns for all groups, and suppress the second when not = to the group you want to see two columns in.

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Quote aepstein83 Replybullet Posted: 24 Oct 2012 at 5:28am
Thanks. Is there a way of putting two groups in a column without creating another group? That would require another database field and I can't modify the database.
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Quote hilfy Replybullet Posted: 24 Oct 2012 at 8:54am
Tell me a little more about your data.  What constitues a "group"?  How is that returned in the query from the report?  What type of section are you placing the data in? 
 
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Quote aepstein83 Replybullet Posted: 24 Oct 2012 at 10:13am
Dell,

One of the difficulties I have had with building my report was that I didn't have access to the database itself. I don't know exactly how it is built and what all the fields are. However, the basic idea is simple. We have four large categories and five subgroups within each category. Each page represents the large category and has five columns - one for each subcategory. Recently, an additional subcategory was added - so, now, on page has six subcategories. Both the categories and subcategories are identified by unique names and unique numbers. Is there a way to stop the column from  breaking if and only if the following group has a particular name (or number)?

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