Replicate data on subsequent page with Fixed Number of Fields in the Layout

Question

Here is a tricky one. I have a Report that is generating a sort of Master Detail Report. This report prints on a Pre-printed form.
1. 1/3 of the Page is dedicated to logos and Company information.
2. Second 1/3 part of the page is dedicated to the Customer information (Name, Address, Phone/Fax details)
3. Final 1/3 part of the page is the detail which can accommodate up to 4 rows. In this section, there are individual fields for the 4 Lines. The goal is to show up to 4 records in the Detail and if there are more records being fetched in the cursor (More than 4), then I need to print the Header section again since its the same Customer and the Detailed records start from Record Number 9 and then 17 and so on.
I am populating the Header and the Detail records in a Formula Column and not in the Main Query. The Main Query is pretty simple, it just gets all Customers based on a Zip Code. This is why, there is only one Repeating Group and all the items (Master record) and the Detailed Records (Which are basically individual fields placed one below the other) are part of the same Repeating Group. They are being populated in a Formula Column and not a Query.
Having said this, is this a very cumbersome way to take this approach? The Report already exists in this state and I need to make some modifications and this feature I am talking about would be a big leap.
Thanks
Edited by: Roxyrollers on Aug 2, 2012 3:18 PM
Edited by: Roxyrollers on Aug 2, 2012 3:41 PM

Answer 1

I have changed the Report and it has become simpler and more manageable. What I now have are two separate Queries. The Main Query gets all the Customer Information based on Zip Codes and lists all the Personal Information in the middle section (The top section is left blank for the Pre-Printed form). There is now another Query which is linked to the Main Query based on Customer ID. The second Query is retrieving Multiple Records.
Q_1 = Main Query getting Customer's Personal Information
Q_2 = Detail Query getting all the Invoices for the Customer with different dates
Now, is there a way to say that if Number of Records > 5 (Invoice Detail Repeating Group), print the details on the following Page? However when I am doing this, I also want the entire Header section to be replicated on the following Page.
Example: Customer ID 1001 (David Taylor) has 10 Invoices that need to be displayed. My output should be like below
Page1
Name:    Mr David Taylor                  Customer ID: 1001
Address: 2200 Picket Fences
         Santa Ana, CA 92704              Phone#: [phone]
Date           Product            Quantity              Price
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05/17/2012     Product 1          2                      99.99
05/22/2012     Product 2          1                      99.99
06/01/2012     Product 3          3                      99.99
07/17/2012     Product 4          40                     99.99
==============================================================
Page2
Name:    Mr David Taylor                  Customer ID: 1001
Address: 2200 Picket Fences
         Santa Ana, CA 92704              Phone#: [phone]
Date           Product            Quantity              Price
==============================================================
07/18/2012     Product 5          25                     99.99
07/22/2012     Product 6          3                      99.99
07/23/2012     Product 7          1                      99.99
07/24/2012     Product 8          1                      99.99
==============================================================
Page3
Name:    Mr David Taylor                  Customer ID: 1001
Address: 2200 Picket Fences
         Santa Ana, CA 92704              Phone#: [phone]
Date           Product            Quantity              Price
==============================================================
07/26/2012     Product 9          25                     99.99
07/29/2012     Product 10         3                      99.99
==============================================================Any help is appreciated. I am going to look into creating a Summary Column in Q_2 and going from there. Thanks!