On Monday, January 02, 2012 06:45:38 AM Paul McNett wrote:
> On 1/2/12 4:21 AM, Nate Lowrie wrote:
> > On 12/30/2011 12:30 PM, Paul McNett wrote:
> >> >  On 12/29/11 11:57 AM, Nate Lowrie wrote:
> >>> >>  Also, can I repeat a certain group a set number of times
> >>> >>  based
> >>> >>  on a field?  Or would I have to expand it out in SQL to
> >>> >>  multiple row sets?>> >  
> >> >  Give me a real-world example to understand what you are doing.
> >> >  Not sure what you mean by 'repeat a group'. The group will
> >> >  print as long as the group expression evaluates identically to
> >> >  the prior record. Theoretically, you should be able to repeat
> >> >  the same group as long as there's a non-matching record in
> >> >  between, but I'm not sure that's even what you were getting at.
> > 
> > My real world example was printing out kit BOMs with an order packing
> > slip based upon order lines.  So, if they ordered 3 of kit A and 5 of
> > kit B, the report would get the order line/product/product bom
> > de-normalized table and be able to repeat the group on Kit A 3 times and
> > Kit B 5 times.
> 
> No, I guess there's no way to repeat a group like you describe. I'll have to
> put that in the hopper and consider it for a while before doing anything.
> 
> Paul

I would add a field to group on.  In this case a group BOM number.  Then I 
could have the three (3) BOM's repeat.

Johnf
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