Multiple report sections

Question

I need to create a report that has multiple sections. We will
be calling this report from a form and we want to allow the user
to select which sections (one, some or all) they want included
in the report. The form and report will be accessable via the
web.
How can I build the report(s) and pass the parameters to it from
a form sothat it looks like one report?
Thanks,
Ben

Answer 1

Hi there,
I hope this will help:
- each section should be enclosed by a separate frame.
- within each section you chose a field as a parameter to
determine whether that section should be shown or not, e.g. in
your select statement you have:
select f1, f1, f3, f4 from table1.....
then you add a where clause creating parameter(s):
select f1, f1, f3, f4 from table1 WHERE F1=PARA1 OR F2=PARA2 etc.
then on your parameter form you create the parameters and pass
to the report.
Now, in each frame you create a format trigger that returns
false or True based on the value of the parameters using an IF
statement. If it returns False then the section enclosed by that
frame will not be shown, and vice versa.