[AccessD] report grouping on the fly?

Thanks for the responses, Marty, Don, Rocky and Gustav. We'll follow these
links and ideas up.

Roz

-----Original Message-----
From: MartyConnelly [mailto:martyconnelly at shaw.ca] 
Sent: 08 March 2005 18:25
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [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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