Columns/Group Section Formatting Issue 1

[rdpress]

I am doing a 3-column report that has a group section for day of week. I’m essentially doing a menu for a three meals for an entire week, each menu item prints in the detail section, however the number of items per meal vary, so the day section /with columns varies, making it difficult to read:

Breakfast Lunch
Monday Monday
item item
item Tuesday
Tuesday item
item Wednesday
item
Wednesday
I would like this:

Breakfast Lunch
Monday Monday
item item
item
Tuesday Tuesday
item item
item
Wednesday Wednesday


Any ideas on how to accomplish this?

 

[lameid]

Without knowing your tables, my first inclination is the following...

Use 1 column.

Have a subreport for each meal.

Link Master and child fields on the day of the week.

Make the meal subreport controls the same height and aligned vertically.

Set the Can Grow and Can Shrink properties to yes for each sub report as well as the section you put them in.

That should allow the individual meals to expand the section and keep them all in line.