How to make the name of a column apear as many times as the column on page

Question

Hi,
This is what i want to do:
I have a basic report looking like this:
<Column name>
value 1
value 2
value 3
value n
Since the column is small it can fit in a page more then one time. I know how to make it print more then once: i switch the repeating frame to print down and across and i modify the frame that contains it so the horizontal elasticity is variable.
After these changes my report looks like this:
<Column name>
value 1-----------------------value n+1-----------------------value m+1
value 2-----------------------value n+2-----------------------value m+2
value 3-----------------------value n+3-----------------------...
value n-----------------------value m
What i want is my report to look like this:
<Column name>-------<Column name>------------<Column name>
value 1-----------------------value n+1-----------------------value m+1
value 2-----------------------value n+2-----------------------value m+2
value 3-----------------------value n+3-----------------------...
value n-----------------------value m
Would welcome any advice on how to achieve this please.
Thank you.

Answer 1

Hi,
I will suggest a solution which may appear not simple. I do not know. Il did use this method, because a Government pre-printed tax form can print six values (in colum way) each page and it was not just esthetique question.
1. Seams that you can know in advance the max number of column according to the width of the page and the length of the column.
2. You can assume that you have x column at max by ligne
3. Transforms your N rows in a table of M rows, each one with x columns : you will have N/x + N mod x
4. I did this transformation using PL/SQL piplined function to transform rows to columns (by x)
5. You base your report on the Pipelined function using select ... from Table (fnc_....) syntaxe
6. make your vertical elasticity to variable and horizontal to fixed
7. Put six labels on the top of your repeating frame (within a normal frame)
I agree, it's not the solution if the requirment is just esthetic.
Hope it helps.
Mohamed Dadi