display 'groups' next to each other?

I work for a non-profit agency which is slooowly computerizing itself.
We recently acquired SS 2005 and I am learning RS 2005.
My question: How can I create a report format such that the 'groups'
are adjacent to each other'
This is not the same as multi-column report, which looks like
newspapers.
I want:
Group 1
Category 1 Category 2 Category 3
Item 1 Item 22 Item 31
Item 2 Item 35 Item 41
Item 3 Item 45 Item 51
Item 4 Item 55 Item 61
Group 2
Category 1 Category 2 Category 3
Item 10 Item 322 Item 310
Item 20 Item 335 Item 410
Item 30 Item 345 Item 510
Item 40 Item 355 Item 610
Or is this not possible in RS2005 and I must use a regular HTML page
sort of thing?
Thank you, TomThis looks like two tables on one report, with different groups on,
using the same Dataset rather than one table with fancy grouping.
On Oct 24, 4:57 pm, "tlyczko" <tlyc...@.gmail.com> wrote:
> I work for a non-profit agency which is slooowly computerizing itself.
> We recently acquired SS 2005 and I am learning RS 2005.
> My question: How can I create a report format such that the 'groups'
> are adjacent to each other'
> This is not the same as multi-column report, which looks like
> newspapers.
> I want:
> Group 1
> Category 1 Category 2 Category 3
> Item 1 Item 22 Item 31
> Item 2 Item 35 Item 41
> Item 3 Item 45 Item 51
> Item 4 Item 55 Item 61
> Group 2
> Category 1 Category 2 Category 3
> Item 10 Item 322 Item 310
> Item 20 Item 335 Item 410
> Item 30 Item 345 Item 510
> Item 40 Item 355 Item 610
> Or is this not possible in RS2005 and I must use a regular HTML page
> sort of thing?
> Thank you, Tom|||I don't think so.
Tables always display data vertically, top to bottom.
I want across for one type of data (category)
then lists across (members of each category)
I'll see if I can do that though
Thanks, Tom
weelin wrote:
> This looks like two tables on one report, with different groups on,
> using the same Dataset rather than one table with fancy grouping.|||Have you looked at the Matrix control yet, compared to Table? To me it looks
like you should use a matrix, with coloum groups set to Category. You might
have to tweak your data set a bit, to get both column groups and row groups,
but matrix is still the best way to go.
Kaisa M. Lindahl Lervik
"tlyczko" <tlyczko@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I work for a non-profit agency which is slooowly computerizing itself.
> We recently acquired SS 2005 and I am learning RS 2005.
> My question: How can I create a report format such that the 'groups'
> are adjacent to each other'
> This is not the same as multi-column report, which looks like
> newspapers.
> I want:
> Group 1
> Category 1 Category 2 Category 3
> Item 1 Item 22 Item 31
> Item 2 Item 35 Item 41
> Item 3 Item 45 Item 51
> Item 4 Item 55 Item 61
>
> Group 2
> Category 1 Category 2 Category 3
> Item 10 Item 322 Item 310
> Item 20 Item 335 Item 410
> Item 30 Item 345 Item 510
> Item 40 Item 355 Item 610
> Or is this not possible in RS2005 and I must use a regular HTML page
> sort of thing?
> Thank you, Tom
>|||Still trying this out, but it is not displaying the items under the
categories properly, they are either 'stepped,' or there are gaps in
the list rows, etc. etc., and the matrix doesn't seem to have a way of
'wrapping' the columns around, I don't want one giant
spreadsheet-looking thing, I would like a four-column sort of thing.
Thank you, Tom
P.S. I'm beginning to think it's impossible.
Kaisa M. Lindahl Lervik wrote:
> Have you looked at the Matrix control yet, compared to Table? To me it looks
> like you should use a matrix, with coloum groups set to Category. You might
> have to tweak your data set a bit, to get both column groups and row groups,
> but matrix is still the best way to go.