Grouping report

Question

Can I create a report where data is grouped on the basis of some columns in the query
For example :My report should show like
Assigned ID Date Description
To
====== === ===== ============
ALAN01 12345 23-JUN-07 This is the desription
Entry Date :23-JUN-07 Entry Text:Pass to ABC dept
Entry Date :24-JUN-07 Entry Text:Pass to DEF dept
ALAN02 12346 12-JUN-07 This is the desription
Entry Date :12-JUN-07 Entry Text:Pass to ABC dept
Clearly there are two sections in the report for each row
The first one is the person , id, date and description
For this data there may be multiple entry date and entry text
In normal view , the person , id, date and description repeat
for every entry date and entry text.
Is there any way I can group them ?

Answer 1

Rakhee,
This is essentially a Master-Detail report. You can do this with Advanced PDF Printing (see the new how to http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/application_express/howtos/howto_master_detail_pdf.html).
To do this in a region displayed on a page your can:
1) Create two reports, one that displays the master and a second that displays the details and then your users will need to scroll through each master.
2) If you want one report that runs down the page with all the data, you can either do some creative sql using a union or you can use pl/sql, htp.p and a loop to grab each parent, print it and then grab the children for that parent and print those.
As you can see, there is no report region out of the box that handles this Master-Detail situation.
Good luck.
-- Sharon