Control break summaries in QTP

[Rich `Lego-Man' Jesse - 7633]

Allison Hamilton replies to my post:

AH> Ahhh.... if I do say so myself - the Tracer is wonderful - what is happening

I seem to remember hearing about someone coincidentally named Allison Hamilton
who wrote most of the QTP Tracer...   ;)   Unfortunately, I'm doing this just
prior to our conversion to 8.13, and it's not setup to access our Oracle DBs,
with our dictionaries, etc, and I need to fix this by Thursday (yikes!).

AH> is that the item AT is done at the end of the sort break, but the output is
AH> done at the DETAIL time - which is first - so the subtotalling isn't done
AH> yet.  I would normally suggest that you add an AT <sort break> on the OUTPUT
AH> statement - but that doesn't seem to be possible as you have duplicate
AH> records at that sort break...  But that is what's happening.

And I think this confirms what many people have been writing.

So, the temporary T_BIN_COUNT is evaluated after the OUTPUT statement.  Any
ideas as to how to accomplish this control-break then?  Is there a way to
hardcode an item in the LINK statement, e.g. "LINK 1 TO T_BIN_COUNT", to
replace T_BIN_COUNT?  If I'm not mistaken, that would move the evaluation of
the TEMPORARY T_BIN_COUNT to a record item, which would be before the OUTPUT
statement.

In the meantime, I'm messing with "ITEM...COUNT AT", but the TEMP is still
there and I don't think it'll work...   :(

Thanks all for the help and ideas so far!   :)

Rich Jesse                              Programmer/Analyst (/DBA/SysAdmin/etc.)
rjesse@qtiworld.com                     Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA
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