Ask Reuben 46 - GRW - Table As A Grid

Started by Reuben B., September 11, 2020, 04:55:18 AM

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Reuben B.

When using Genero Report Writer (GRW) you will often see a pattern where you need to stack a number of fields vertically and for each field you wish to display both a Label/Caption and a Value.  Typically in documents such as Invoices, Purchase Order in the header there will be a requirement to display a number of fields in this manner.

There are many ways in the Genero Report Writer you can do this.  You should use a technique that minimises the effort of making changes to the report as you design it.

In this article I examine some of these techniques finishing up with how using a Table object can be used to keep rows and columns in alignment as you make changes to the content of the rows and columns.

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