Show Group Info on Detail Row

bhanley

Sometimes a report is better served by moving a group identifier to a detail row with all the other data items, rather tahn on its own header row. This can save screen real estate, make a report easier to print or perhaps just make the data more relatable to the user. Whatever the case, this is an easy solution with BIRT.<br />
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1) Create a table and bind it to a Data Set.<br />
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2) Add your data to the table as needed<br />
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3) Create a grouping on the table<br />
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4) Move the group's data item to a detail row.<br />
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4.1) You can delete the group header and footer at this point unles you need them for something else.<br />
5) Select the column that the group data item is contained within.<br />
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6) Look to the report's properties (lower, right-hand area of the IDE), go to "Properties --> Advanced" and set "Suppress Duplicates" to true.<br />
That will do it! Have a look at the atached sample, built on Classic Models to see it in action.<br />
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Good Luck!