Grouping inside current grouping in BIP

Question

Hi All,
I need to create a sub report inside the parent report. For the parent report, I am grouping the rows on the basis of emp id which is the primary key and then I am grouping my rest of the columns by using current group. The parent report and sub report are linked to each other by emp id which I am using as a parameter
Similar is for the sub report, I need to group this report too on some column.
The data for the sub report comes from a different query. So I created two data models, one for parent and one for sub report, contactenated the data sets with row names unique.
data comes something like this
<DATA>
<PARENT>
+<PARENT_ROW>
+<PARENT_ROW>
</PARENT_ROW>
</PARENT>
<SUB>
+<SUB_ROW>
+<SUB_ROW>
</SUB>
</DATA>
So there are two nodes, PARENT and SUB. Now I have to show my grouped sub report inside the group parent report but the issue is since my sub report refers to a different node ( which is SUB) inside the parent report ( which refers to PARENT node), I don't see the data for sub report when i place it inside the PARENT report and when I place it out of the PARENT report, it works. Now this is how I want to place my sub and parent reports
          --PARENT Report starts
PARENT_DATA_FIELD1
PARENT_DATA_FIELD2
          --SUB report starts
SUB_DATA_FIELD1
SUB_DATA_FIELD2
          --SUB report ends
PARENT_DATA_FIELD3
PARENT_DATA_FIELD4
--PARENT Report starts
Long story short, I need to refer to the different node (and use grouping) inside an another running group of a differnt node. Can I do this?
Request you to let me know, any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Ronny

Answer 1

Take a look at the following link: http://blogs.oracle.com/xmlpublisher/entry/formatting_concatenated_dataso
and give it a try or you send me the RTF template and xml to [email protected] I can try to help.
Thanks,
Bipuser