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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jun 5 07:43:06 +0000
2007 -------
There are more arguments why the order should be "report header before page
header". One is that a certain competitive product, which does have a much
longer history in report designing that we have, does it this way.
More important (in my opinion):
The current behavior makes it difficult (up to impossible for average users,
IMO) to create a simple tabular report *with* report header. That is, a report
like the one in the attached document: On every page, there is some header
containing the field names, and the rest of the page is filled with the field
content in tabular form:
page 1:
+-------------------------------+
| Report Header |
+-----------+---------+---------+
| Field 1 | Field 2 | Field 3 |
+-----------+---------+---------+
| data | data | data |
| data | data | data |
| data | data | data |
| data | data | data |
| data | data | data |
| data | data | data |
| data | data | data |
| data | data | data |
+-----------+---------+---------+
page 2:
+-----------+---------+---------+
| Field 1 | Field 2 | Field 3 |
+-----------+---------+---------+
| data | data | data |
| data | data | data |
| data | data | data |
| data | data | data |
| data | data | data |
| data | data | data |
| data | data | data |
| data | data | data |
+-----------+---------+---------+
This layout is *possible* with our current behavior, but difficult: You need to
define a group, which is bound to some constant value (say "1"), and put the
table headings into the group header instead of the page header. In my opinion,
this is way too difficult for the average user, and a clumsy workaround only.
Also, I'd claim that such tabular reports, as sketched above, are a pretty
common use case.
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