Report Design: Multiple Group Header Sections in Page Header.

Multiple Group Header Sections in Page Header.

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Topic: Multiple Group Header Sections in Page Header.

Posted By: Bhanu Prakash T
Subject: Multiple Group Header Sections in Page Header.
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2012 at 4:15am

Hi,

Iam using Basic Crystal Reports which comes with VS 2008 by default.

Here is my .rpt file design.

User will select a PRODUCT ID from the dropdown to generate the below report.

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Section 1 - Report Header - Have company logo & other details here.

Section 2 - Page Header - divided this into two sections.

Group Header Section 1

Total available product quantity : XXX

Total outstanding orders for this product : YYY

Group Header Section 2 - Column headings only
Column A Column B Column C Column D

Section 3 Details - Data in all columns - these values are coming the DB.

10 20 30 40

11 21 31 41

12 22 32 42

Section 5 Page Footer - Disclaimer

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One report can span between multiple pages.

Group Header Section 1 must be displayed only once in the first page of the product report.

Group Header Section 2 (column names) must be repeated in every page of the product report.

If user selects "ALL PRODUCTS" then reports for all products will be displayed one after the other i.e. As soon as the Product A report ends in Page 2, Product B report must start from Page 2 just below the Product A report.

Can anyone help me how to achieve the above requirement ?

Replies:

Posted By: lockwelle
Date Posted: 12 Jan 2012 at 6:45am

won't work.

when product a is displayed the header will reflect the product a information. If product b starts right after product a, the page header will be incorrect...you would want to force a page break for the page header to work as desired.

repeating the column header on every page is just setting the property to repeat on every page (section expert)

for the only on the first page issue, you would want to use a flag that probably checks if the previous value is the same as the current and they do match to suppress the section.