Grouping problem: records printed in diff. columns

[psentosa]

Hi all,

I'd like to do some grouping in my report.

The page is divided in 3 columns.

Each group has several entries and each new group should be placed in the next column, so it should look like this:                 

 

GroupName1	GroupName2	GroupName3
Entry11	Entry21	Entry31
Entry12	Entry22	Entry32
Entry13	Entry23	Entry33

 

But somehow I got the following form:

 

GroupName1
Entry11	Entry12	Entry13
GroupName2
Entry21	Entry22	Entry23
GroupName3
Entry31	Entry32	Entry33

 

The question is, why are the entries spreaded into the different columns? I activate isStartANewColumn with the hope that each group will be placed in the next column, but then only the entries are placed in the different columns

I attached my jrxml file, please have a look, and would be very thankful for any hints

 

Regards

Post Edited by psentosa at 04/13/2010 14:43

Post Edited by psentosa at 04/14/2010 07:47

Post Edited by psentosa at 04/14/2010 11:48

[psentosa]

Apparently I made a mistake by having the printOrder set to "Horizontal", that's why the records are printed through the different columns.

But still I have another problem:

 

By activating the isStartOnANewColumn, the first three groups are printed in the different columns.

But the next groups will be then printed on the next pages.

How can I make that the spaces in first page are filled in before moving to next page? i.e

the 4th group will be under the 1st

the 5th under the 2nd

the 6th under the 3rd and so on...

Having pagination ignored make the groups are all printed in the first page, but also everything in the first column although startOnNewColumn is still active.

Any hints on this?Thanks in advance

[lucianc]

I don't think that's currently possible in JR.  When a new column is started, the previous one is considered to have taken up the entire space to the page bottom.

Log an enhacement request for this so that we'll consider whether there's something we can do to support such cases.

Regards,

Lucian