Highlight every alternate row

Question

Hi,
I have 2 queries, one for master and one for detail linked.
In my paper layout, for my detail group I need to highlight every alternate row.
I tried with creating a summary column in detail group
and assigned formula as 'count' and selected reset group as the detail group, but i don't know what to assign for the source.
also help me how the formatting trigger goes.
thanks
asha

Answer 1

Hi Asha,
There may be several ways to achieve this - "to highlight every alternate row" in your detail group.
Here is just one example that I have tested - based on 2 linked queries (1 master and 1 detail).
In your detail query, add the following column:
mod(rownum,2)"Seq"
to your SQL statement.
This will give you values of 0 or 1 for alternate rows. ie row 1 "seq" will have a value of 1 and row 2 will have a value of 0, etc. This column does not need to be displayed in the layout.
Now, you can add the following format trigger for each of the columns in the detail group:
begin
-- Automatically Generated from Report Builder.
if (:mod_rownum_2 = '0')
then
srw.set_foreground_fill_color('red');
srw.set_fill_pattern('solid');
end if;
return (TRUE);
end;
The above code was generated by using conditional formatting, setting the colour to "red".
Hope the above helps.
Regards,
John