Need help creating a specific report

Question

I am trying to create a specific report but to-date can not get it to work the way I want it to. I am trying to create a report that does the following:
- lists all my groups I have
- if the group has not registered a meeting in a specific week then highlight that group in Bold (or a specific color)
I have 2 tables: 1 containing the groups and the other containing the meetings they have registered.
I have managed to get the list of groups on the page and I have worked out the formula to check if the meeting date is in a specific week but when ever I try to include the meeting date then the groups are listed per meeting and not 1 entry per group.
Tables - Sample Data
SGFID     GroupID     Facilitator     MeetingDate     Description
1     20     38     02/26/2009     First Meeting
2     10     72     03/19/2009     Second Meeting
3     20     38     03/12/2009     First Meeting
4     12     1     03/19/2009     Second Meeting
5     20     38     03/05/2009     First Meeting
GroupID     GroupName     Htel          
10     Group1     123456          
12     Group2     987654          
20     Group3     678345
What I get is the following:
20     Group3     678345          
10     Group1     123456
20     Group3     678345          
12     Group2     987654          
20     Group3     678345
What I want is the following. If I am looking for all meetings in the week where the 19th falls in then:
10     Group1     123456          
12     Group2     987654          
20     Group3     678345
Edited by: Garth Truter on Mar 31, 2009 1:34 PM

Answer 1

Hiya,
OH!  I just noticed that I didn't tell you to suppress to details section in the original post, which is why you might be concerned about the use of groups - My bad!
So, given that, do try the solution.  There may be another way using arrays, but it's kludgy and far more complicated....
Try using your "Group" table (I see confusion happening here!) as the master/left table in your join, with the "Meetings" table on the right.
Groups -
(Left Outer Join)----> Meetings
Then create a group on Groups.GroupID (or similar) and follow the steps I posted earlier - it really should work!