> Am I messed up in the head to expect the report engine to actually group > the data, instead of just inserting group breaks where the data shows up?
I started with dBXL, which had no built-in report writer. Salesguy sold me the separate Focus report writing software which I could never grok. So I did all my reports by munging output cursors and then going with @SAY...
By now it just comes way easier to me to conceptualize how the report should look row by row in a cursor, and then I just generate and output that cursor. The report writer, to me, is just so unobvious and indirect that it's like trying to use hiergoglyphics to output "Hello world."
Also, IMO, conceptualizing the data as it actually is, instead of trying to jump through the arbitrary hoops the report writer requires, produces greater understanding of the data. YMMV.
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