sigmason
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| Posted: 08/24/2010, 12:14 PM |
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I'm new to this function of CCS. I'm trying to do what appears to be 2 simple things but I'm curious as to whether my solution is the best option.
I have reports from a system that are grouped by user. There is only that one level of grouping. I'd like the start of each new group to always be on it's own page. In the current report builder results, when the next group header is put in the table it's often on the same page as the end of the last section. Is there a way to add the page break without working in the PHP code?
Secondly in all the reports I have there are columns that are empty. I need them to remain expanded, as the group column header labels achieve on whatever page they appear, but on all other pages the columns that contain no data seem to collapse to the left throwing the look and feel of the document completely off and worse making everything difficult to read. Any way to adjust this without tinkering with the PHP? I'm fine with displaying the headers on every page, but from what I see in other topics in the forum it throws off the row count.
Thanks.
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sigmason
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| Posted: 08/24/2010, 2:53 PM |
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In reply to my one issue, if you create a report with 'Report Builder' and specify either the 'Group Left and Above' or 'Group Left' options you get field names in the page header section of each page.
This is different from 'Group Above' and "Group Outline' that put the field labels into the group header.
I was originally using 'Group Above' and didn't notice this other behavior till I more carefully read the User Guide.
The resolution to the table column widths after I thought about it was more apparent. In the HTML templates you can change the table parameters to produce fixed width tables and columns.
Unless I'm missing something my current version of Code Charge 4.3 doesn't support automating this task or adjusting such a table visually.
So now I'm down to figuring out how to page break when a group header appears. I've tried replicating the page break from HTML into the group header, but of course, the group header is the first line of the report under the page header and it throws off the paging in other ways.
It looks like I have to alter this in PHP.
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