Number of copies in Report

Question

Hi All,
I am using reports 6i. I designed a mater detail report.
It is working fine. Im having 3 master records per page with details.
Now in output im getting master record 1 and 2 and 3 with details.
But i need every master record with details shoud come thrice in a page.(3 copies)
i.e first page should come master record 1 and 1 and 1 and
second page with master record 2 and 2 and 2 and so on.
How to achieve this. Good help will be appreciated.
Regards
Sankar MN

Answer 1

Hi,
One of the easiest way will be to handle your query for the report.
Suppose you have such a query:
select column1 column1,
         column2 column2,
         column3 column3
from table_nameChange your query using UNION ALL to retrieve three rows for each record as
select column1 column1,
         column2 column2,
         column3 column3,
         1           dummy_field -- this is the new column it should be in the top group
from table_name
union all
select column1 column1,
         column2 column2,
         column3 column3,
         2           dummy_field -- this is the new column it should be in the top group
from table_name
union all
select column1 column1,
         column2 column2,
         column3 column3,
         3           dummy_field -- this is the new column it should be in the top group
from table_name
ORDER BY column1, dummy_field -- in place of column1 use fields like order_no etc which will be unique in your caseHope this helps.
Best Regards
Arif Khadas
Edited by: Arif Khadas on Aug 25, 2010 12:20 PM