I know this comment is way of the mark in helping you out for
this situation,but this sort of problem is why I ditched Quick Reports quite
some time ago and switched to using FastReport.
Grouping is where it really stands out..sub-totals are no
problem at all - even as percentages. Its also relatively easy to have
your group header repeat on a new page (with continued.... if you
wish).
FastReports also have the option of having a dialog box to
select the report criteria AS PART OF THE REPORT ITSELF!!
I've written some pretty funky reports for customers using it
and I KNOW that QuickReports just would NOT be able to have supported what the
customer wanted. Group totals not only as a percentage (say of department
sales) but also as a percentage of something else (say total sales for the same
period) are also easy.
FWIW, FastReport does this by using two passes; not over the
dataset but over the report itself. It generates placeholders (Labels?)
for the totals, then goes back and fills in the labels? when the dataset scan is
complete.
I believe that Kylix now uses FastReport as the built-in
report-writer.
From an ease of use/capability point of view, I would rate it
somewhere between QR and Nevrona's Report Builder. Specifically, it is as
easy as QR, and almost as capable as ReportBuilder, but you don't have to resort
to code to do the sorts of things that ReportBuilder allows (and requires code
for).
BTW, its is also very fast. Usually faster than a
comparable QR.
I stand to make nothing from endorsing this product. I'm just
a happy user. 100% Delphi and source is available. Nowhere near the
number of bugs that QR has either. If you can convince your Boss, its
definitely worth a look: you'll be glad you did..
Sorry to not have any pointers on how to make QR
behave.
Trevor
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- [DUG]: Paradox SQL - Group totals as % of Grand total Mark Howard
- Re: [DUG]: Paradox SQL - Group totals as % of Grand ... Craig Goodall
- RE: [DUG]: Paradox SQL - Group totals as % of Grand ... Stacey Verner
- Re: [DUG]: Paradox SQL - Group totals as % of Grand ... Trevor Jones
- Re: [DUG]: Paradox SQL - Group totals as % of Grand ... Mike Osborne
- RE: [DUG]: Paradox SQL - Group totals as % of Grand ... Cheng Wei (ASL)
- Re: [DUG]: Paradox SQL - Group totals as % of Grand ... Mark Howard
- Re: [DUG]: Paradox SQL - Group totals as % of Grand ... Trevor Jones
- RE: [DUG]: Paradox SQL - Group totals as % of Grand ... Cheng Wei (ASL)