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User’s Guide


Specifying the Group Order

Follow these steps to specify a group order for a report’s records:

  1. Choose Database Group Order. The Group Order dialog box appears:
  2. The Group Order dialog box displays the currently defined group order levels. In the dialog box shown there are no group order levels currently defined. If you select sort fields, those fields automatically become group fields.

  3. Choose New to specify a new group order. The Group Level dialog box appears:
  4. Select the group order level you want to define in the Group Level drop-down list.
  5. Select the field on which you want to group this level from the Group Field drop-down list.
  6. The drop-down list displays the connected databases, the joined tables, and the user-defined fields for the report definition. Double-click the database, then the table that contains the field you want. Report Builder lists the fields for the selected table.

  7. Specify the grouping options. The following section describes each group order attribute.
  8. Choose OK to return to the Group Order dialog box.
  9. Choose OK to return to the report layout.

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