Why are details in the group footer?

[grnzbra]

I have a report which contains info about real estate listings. The offices involved show up in a subreport and the info appears in detail lines. Typically, there is only one office for each line but sometimes there are two and there could be more, but I haven't seen that. However, these lines, instead of appearing in the detail section of the report appear in the group footer. The report is grouped on the listing number so that there is only one listing in each group.

I didn't create this thing and am not trying to modify it. I would just like to know why it might be done this way.

 

[dhookom]

Are you asking us why another developer chose to design a report in a particular way? We don't know the requirements, table structures, sample data, relationships, current display of the report, if it is right or wrong based on specifications that we don't know,...

Duane
MS Access MVP
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[grnzbra]

Not why "did" he design it that way. Why "might" he have designed it that way. I'm not trying to change it or anything, just trying to understand why someone might do it that way.

 

[dhookom]

He might have done it:
- to achieve a specific visual affect
- it was in the specs
- by mistake

Duane
MS Access MVP
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