# Report builder Question? **Category:** [Yahoo Archive](https://www.epiusers.help/c/yahoo-archive/9) **Created:** 2000-08-31 15:07 UTC **Views:** 328 **Replies:** 3 **URL:** https://www.epiusers.help/t/report-builder-question/989 --- ## Post #1 by @system
If you could somehow assign each record a record#, then you could do a
calculated field using
iif(Recno = 1, 0, (Recno - 1) MODULO (#of columns)), then sort by the
calculated field and Recno.
This would sort the records such that for columns=3; records 1,4,7...
would =0; records 2,5,8..=1... effectively transposing the rows into
columns. Like Wayne, I have not figured out how to assign a record #.
Regards
Jim Stetter


-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Cox [mailto:wmc@...]
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 2:39 PM
To: vantage@egroups.com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] Report builder Question?


At 02:24 PM 8/31/2000 , you wrote:
>Select properties, Record Layout, Records across, enter number of
records

He's trying to get it to fill the columns first.

I tried to come up with some algebraic tricks to stuff into a calculated
field that could be sorted on, but didn't have any luck (at least in the
time available today.)

-WC





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--- ## Post #2 by @system
Select properties, Record Layout, Records across, enter number of records

Jeff Myers

Rubberasc@... wrote:

>
> I am trying to generate a report that prints in multiple vertical columns such as below.
>
> 1 6 11
> 2 7 12
> 3 8 13
> 4 9 14
> 5 10 15
>
> The formating under PAGE setup only permits horizontal rows such as:
>
> 1 2 3 4 5
> 6 7 8 9 10
> 11 12 13 14 15
>
> Are there any slick methods out there to get what I'm after.
>
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--- ## Post #3 by @system
Select properties, Record Layout, Records across, enter number of records


The format above generates the example below.
>
> The formating under PAGE setup only permits horizontal rows such as:
>
> 1 2 3 4 5
> 6 7 8 9 10
> 11 12 13 14 15


I'm trying for:
> 1 6 11
> 2 7 12
> 3 8 13
> 4 9 14
> 5 10 15


Shirley Graver
Sys Admin
Cleveland/Akron
--- ## Post #4 by @system
At 02:24 PM 8/31/2000 , you wrote:
>Select properties, Record Layout, Records across, enter number of records

He's trying to get it to fill the columns first.

I tried to come up with some algebraic tricks to stuff into a calculated
field that could be sorted on, but didn't have any luck (at least in the
time available today.)

-WC
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