Quick Reports Master/Detail

[Fluke026]

Hello,

I am working on a program for my wife to store, organize, and print her recipes (D5 Professional with Paradox tables). The store and organize portion has gone great. Printing is hitting a small snag.

The ingredients are assigned as detail records of each recipe while RecipeName and Instructions are in the Master. As it works now, the QuickReport prints...

---Detail Band---
RecipeName
Instructions
---Subdetail Band---
Ingredient List
---End Report---

How do I rework it to print another detail band connected to the same table underneath the ingredients list? Right now I am working on a routine to write the needed TTable records to a text file and then print that from the QR, but doing it with proper bands might be easier (if possible).

Thank you
Frank Luke

 

[TimSNL]

---ColumnHeader Band---
RecipeName
Instructions
---Detail Band---
Ingredient List
---End Report---

 

[EricDraven]

There are some examples of gripuing data for reports included with Delphi but basically your on the right tracks. Keep you detail and subdetail bands, just add a qrgroup and a qrband. Set the qrband to type groupfooter and use the qrgroups datafield to define the grouping. Personally I always use a simple SQL statement with a query component as the reports dataset so if you know basic SQL you can create some good reports this way. Arte Et Labore