I have a report with 4 (four) columns and each column has the output between 2 to 6 report outputs.

Does anyone know of a simple way how I can run the different reports and place them on a PDF like an image.

I tried using HTMTABLE and browser and place them using colspan but the client did not like the look and how it printed.

What they want is the first page to be the Summary each of these will have a link to the detail. The Link I can do.

An example of Summary:
Total Car Sold = 100
GM = 40
Fiat = 5
Sterling = 10
Ford = 10


Thanks,

David

You should be looking into PDF Compound Reports. v7.1.1 may have a Developer Studio PDF Compound Report Builder (or whatever it's called).

The Client does not have the GUIs. They want us to code hand everything.

Hand-Coded

Take out the object=box line...

this is an other way to do this..

SET SQUEEZE=ON
SET PAGE-NUM = OFF

TABLE FILE GGSALES
HEADING CENTER
"Report 1"
"Sales Summary by Category"
" "
SUM UNITS BUDUNITS DOLLARS BUDDOLLARS
BY CATEGORY
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF OPEN
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=REPORT, FONT=ARIAL, $
TYPE=DATA, TOPGAP=0.1, $
TYPE=DATA, COLUMN=CATEGORY, DRILLTHROUGH=DOWN(CATEGORY), $
END

TABLE FILE GGSALES
SUM UNITS BUDUNITS DOLLARS BUDDOLLARS
BY CATEGORY NOPRINT
BY PRODUCT NOPRINT
ON CATEGORY PAGE-BREAK
HEADING CENTER
"Report 2"
"Sales by Category with Product Summary"
" "
"Category:
" "
ON PRODUCT SUBHEAD
"Product:
" "
ON PRODUCT UNDER-LINE
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=DATA, TOPGAP=0.1, $
TYPE=REPORT, FONT=ARIAL, $
TYPE=SUBHEAD, LINE=1, ITEM=2, DRILLTHROUGH=DOWN(CATEGORY PRODUCT), $
END

TABLE FILE GGSALES
SUM UNITS BUDUNITS DOLLARS BUDDOLLARS
BY CATEGORY NOPRINT
BY PRODUCT NOPRINT
BY REGION NOPRINT
BY CITY
ON PRODUCT PAGE-BREAK
ON REGION UNDER-LINE
ON REGION SUB-TOTAL
HEADING CENTER
"Report 3"
"Sales Detail Report"
" "
"Category: <25>Product:
" "
ON REGION SUBHEAD
"Region:
" "
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF CLOSE
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=DATA, TOPGAP=0.1, $
TYPE=REPORT, FONT=ARIAL, $
TYPE=HEADING, LINE=4, ITEM=2, DRILLTHROUGH=FIRST(CATEGORY), COLOR=GREEN, $
END

I hope you can change this to your own needs....

Frank,
Your logic is somthing like the logic I was going to use for the Link . My question has to do with how to place multiple report extracts/sections on a PDF page under 4 columns .

catagory car truck motocycle others
sub-cat
(by maker) sold sold sold sold
(maker / size) engine engine engine clothing
body body body misc items
trans trans trans
tires tires tires
(returns) total total total total
(redo work) total total total
place hold/cancel total total total

As you can see each of the subs can have multiple counts. I will link each of the subs and sub-sub to it's own detail section.

David