Riddle me this.

I have a report where a single Group has 4 sections (GH1a - GH1d). GH1a is grouped on region and shows a count of devices. GH1b c and d have charts only - that displays version of an application (per vendor). Each section focuses on a single app. This works fine - my report is simply a set of charts (9 pages total). The nice thing is that there is a set of charts per region (1 page per region).

My problem is when I add another section (GH1e) - all of a sudden my page count shoots to 65. The three original charts repeat on multiple pages( 7 or 8 pages of repeating charts). The last chart that I added shows only on the second page of the region group. AND is squished down - illegible.

It's not the chart that is the problem, its this 5th group section. I don' even have to put a chart in the section, I can just add section GH1e and my report goes from 9 pages to 65 pages and the three charts repeat 8 times then a new region group starts and the second group of charts repeat again 8 times - and so on.

I'm scratching my head because I don't understand what is causing the repetition.

Any ideas?

Thank you!

Yes..but I needed to keep that. I'm sorry to keep firing off these posts. It does help me though - to just talk it out.

I created a new GH1 group and moved my original group to GH2a-d. GH1 repeats, GH2 does not. This created a new set of problems with GH1 either having a blank page or GH1 displaying at the end of GH2 as the group value changed.
I eventually got it sorted out but I definitely lack some understanding as to how the groups are displayed - and what each setting does to the report. I understand the core components - I use them all of the time- but sometimes I get behavior that is totally unexpected.

In this situation, I had to make the last section (GH2d)fill an entire page to push GH1 to the next page - This then created an issue where GH1 showed on page 1 improperly but showed on the rest of the report correctly. I fixed that with a formula suppress PageNumber = 1. So I got it worked out - but its a little Rube Goldberged - if you know what I mean.

Thanks again Dblank - I always know you have a good answer.

Edited by tdavenport - 29 Feb 2012 at 10:05am

Another gem. Where do you get this stuff? I'll give that a shot too. As always..thank you!