[AccessD] report grouping on the fly?

Here is another approach to customizable reports; download and docs are 
at bottom of page
from Armen Stein.

http://www.jstreettech.com/Downloads.asp

Roz Clarke wrote:

>Dear all
>
>My colleague Tom and I are working on a reporting tool. The principles are
>borrowed from Steve Nyberg's very lovely RFil. (Wih a quite astonishing
>amount of fiddle to get 
>
>We are finding that the demand for bespoke report 'templates' (i.e.
>pre-created reports that they can then set criteria against) is outstripping
>our ability to provide them, because users constantly want different sorting
>and grouping. 
>
>Has anyone ever built anything that created group headers & footers on the
>fly? I am trying to conceptualize it but it seems like a big task.
>
>Thinking aloud here - I can see that we need to limit the options presented
>to the user. They will have little understanding of the data or the
>principles of data interrogation. So we will need to determine which
>grouping functions to make available and which report fields each function
>can apply to.
>
>We will then need to create the appropriate report sections and populate
>them with controls, nicely positioned, suitably formatted and containing the
>correct data binding / grouping function.
>
>I think positioning them will turn out to be the hardest part; it's such a
>visual task when you put total controls on manually.
>
>Any thoughts or advice would be welcome
>
>Cheers
>
>Roz
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