I have a idea, but wanted to make sure there wasn't some best practices or undocumented way to get field values in the heading of a coordinated report.

My idea is create a separate compound component report for the headings.

Thanks,
--wg

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Winfred Gunter,

This is how we do it in my shop.

TABLE FILE DATATABLE
PRINT
     VAR1
     VAR2
     VAR3

...

HEADING
"REPORT TITLE"
"VAR 1: <VAR1 "
"VAR 2: <VAR2 "
"VAR 3: <VAR3 "

HTH, ABT

Okay.... guess my question was kinda dumb... But, I didn't know if there were connections to the coordinated sort column that could be used in the headings.

I guess I'll have to create an additional component report for the heading values.

Thanks,
--wg

quote:

I guess I'll have to create an additional component report for the heading values.

Why would you need an additional component? Coordinated reports work based on your fist BY field so, as long as the FIRST report in your is sorted by VAR1, VAR2 and VAR3 you can just toss those values in the HEADING. The second, third, and so on reports either won't need a heading or if they do, you need to make sure they are also sorted by VAR1, VAR2, VAR3. No additional component should be required only to display a HEADING.

quote:

Okay.... guess my question was kinda dumb

A dumb question is that which never gets asked

- Neftali.

In my case, I have a page with 9 reports on it. Each report is position under the headings of the pdf page (let's call it the body). The 9 reports have their own headings but the pdf page heading is/was just text, until I realized I need to change the heading dynamically with the coordination. To do this, I have to make the headings (that's pdf heading) to be a report component (thus making the 10th component).

Hope this makes sense,
--wg

refer to GamP's post.

http://forums.informationbuild...741084803#6741084803

Using OBJECT=STRING not only in PageMaster but also in TYPE=REPORT, its possible to position the text within the report dimension.

Ram,

Remember this is a compound pdf with 9 report / graph components.

This one page has 9 little indvidual reports on it. I'm using the headings on those 9 reports as their own sub-titles. Are you saying I can take one of the headings lines from one of the 9 reports and embedded a column value in that line and then in the sytle settings reposition outside the boundaries of the component to the heading of the pdf page?

I don't think so, or at least I can see that working.

All,

Also, I already had a solution before asking the question. That solution was to add a 10th component and position it as the heading of the pdf page and then display only heading information that dynamically changes with the 'coordination'.

BTW, I had just discovered 'page master' and was hoping to put the heading report component on the page master to avoid add this additional component 3 times (1 for each page). However, it appears you can't put report / graph components on a page master.

--wg

I guess I'm not asking the question correctly?

Please close this, I have adopted my own solution to add additional components to the page for page heading purposes (not report / component purposes).

--wg

You can close it by opening your initial post, editing the topic's title and adding a [CLOSED] prefix to it.