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most flexible report layout control?

most flexible report layout control?

most flexible report layout control?

(OP)
Hi,

I'm trying to build a series of reports that have a predefined layout, some of which are outside the parameters of what the report painter appears to be capable of, or at least, designed to do easily.  i've read a little about free-form reports but haven't been able to get them to do what i want either.

for example, say i have a table with about 12 columns that i would like to be displayed in a grid:

--------------------------------------
col_01 | col_02 | col_03 | col_04
--------------------------------------
col_05 | col_06 | col_07 | col_08
--------------------------------------
col_09 | col_10 | col_11 | col_12
--------------------------------------

i can't seem to get this to work using the painter or using free-form reports.

since this is a web app i'm building, ideally i'd like total control over the html output, where i could write something like:

<table>
  <tr>
    <td>
    <COL_01 (calling a value somehow)
    </td>
    <td>
    <COL_02
   </tr>
</table>
(etc)

RE: most flexible report layout control?

Try this.

PRINT
COL_01 AS ''
COL_02 AS ''
COL_03 AS ''
COL_04 AS '' OVER
COL_05 AS ''
COL_06 AS ''
COL_07 AS ''
COL_08 AS '' OVER
COL_09 AS ''
COL_10 AS ''
COL_11 AS ''
COL_12 AS ''

RE: most flexible report layout control?

(OP)
perfect, thank you!

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