Page reports by break columns?

Question

Hi!
Is there any way to page a report by the breaks that you set up? For example if column 1 is department then we would like to see all the people in dept. 10 on the first page and all the people in dept. 20 on the 2nd page. Now dept 20 comes right after dept. 10 on page 1.
Thanks!
Dave Venus

Answer 1

Hi,
I've just had a requirement to the same, and this works very nicely.
just place this text in the appropriate place in the report:
'<xp STYLE="page-break-after: always"></xp>'
eg
select ename, job||'<xp STYLE="page-break-after: always"></xp>' job from emp
this will create a separate page per employee when you print it
It works really well if you use a veritical report format and no column heading as:
select ename, job, ||'<xp STYLE="page-break-after: always"></xp>' page break from emp
In your case,when you want to break by a changing department:
select '<xp STYLE="page-break-after: always"></xp>'||deptno deptno, ename, job job from emp
order by 1
then in the report attributes, break by the first column and select repeat headings on break.
(NOTE: i've used xp instead of just p so it will appear as text and not perform that function on the forum) - ie remove the x from xp in both spots