Group options allow set properties for your group that manage the behavior of the group sections in your report. You can determine the sort order of your group, set whether or not the report attempts to keep each section for a particular group item on one page and if and when the group header is repeated. See open the group options screen for details on how to access this screen.

Group Order Options

Groups are sorted by the field they are based on. You can choose the sort the field either Ascending or Descending by selecting the appropriate group order.

For Date fields, you can choose to group your data by day, month, year or quarter based on the date value.

Group Keep Together Options

You can use the Group Keep Together options to set whether or not the report attempts to keep each section for a particular group item on one page.

If Keep Group Data Together is checked, selecting All means the group header, detail and group footer will print together on the same page.

If Keep Group Data Together is checked, selecting First Detail means the group header will print with the first detail section on the same page or column.

Repeat Group Header Options

The Repeat Group Header option determines whether a group header section should be printed again before its associated detail section when the detail section is broken across multiple pages or columns.

The table below details the values you can choose for this option.

Value

Description

None

Do not reprint the group header.

Every Page with Data

Print the group header at the top of each page within the group's detail sections.

Every Column

Print the group header at the top of each column within the group's detail sections.

All

Print the group header at the top of each column and page within the group's detail sections.

Every Page

Print the group header at the top of each page within the group's detail section even if there is no data in the section.