how do you return a specific # of rows in a report?

[lefty38]

I have a report that must be printed on a pre-printed form.
The grouping is by supervisor and the detail(s) are the employees.
I need to have the report page break on a maximum number of records,
Per Supervisor.
Example:
________________
Supervisor(1)
________________
employee1
employee2
employee3
...through
employee19
employee20
________________
Page Break
________________
Supervisor(1)
________________
employee21
employee22
________________
PageBreak
________________
Supervisor(2)
________________
...............

 

[Eradic8or]

If you go into sorting and grouping on the report and make sure you display a footer for your supervisor group. When you right click to view the properties of that footer you can select to enter a page break after / before selection.
I suspect from your report that you want to choose after selection.

That should do it.

Eradic8or

 

[lefty38]

oops
thanks Eradic8or,
but that won't control the number of rows retuned
in the report.
I would need the control to pagebreak at first 20 records
and then at the supv name change
I have a supervisor(s) with:
Supv 1 @ 30 employees
(would recieve 2 pages of 20 names, & 10 names)
Supv 2 @ 15 employees
(would recieve 1 page of all 15 names)
Supv 3 @ 19 employees
(would recieve 1 page of all 19 names)
(etc)

 

[Eradic8or]

I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for x-) ......but if you make the supervisor heading an attribute of every page then adjust the bottom margin setting to miss the pre-printed form, when the report reaches the bottom margin level, it will automatically page break giving you a new page with the supervisor heading.
You could then add your supervior footer and force another page break after the selection.
It would take a bit of fiddling with margin settings but I have tried it and it works.

Eradic8or.