Insert Group Column dialog

The dialog appears when you right-click a table or a table column and select Insert > Group Column from the shortcut menu. It helps you to insert new group columns into a table. See the dialog.

The followings are details about options of this dialog:

Resources

Lists all the available data resources for the new group columns.

Adds the selected field as the group by field in the table.

Removes the selected group by field that is not required.

Replaces the selected group by field in the table with the specified field in the Resources box.

Group By

Lists the fields that are used to group data in the table.

Sort

Specifies how groups at the specific group level will be sorted.

• Ascend
  Groups will be sorted in an ascending order (A, B, C).
• Descend
  Groups will be sorted in a descending order (C, B, A).
• No Sort
  Groups will be sorted in the original order in database.
• Special Group
  Opens the User Defined Group dialog to define grouping information.

  For example, if you placed a field named Region for grouping, and this field contains all 50 states of the United States; and if you want to see the data between Maryland (MD) and New York (NY), you can define the criteria by selecting the between operator to further define your grouping information.

• Sort Group By
  Opens the Sort Group By dialog to set how groups will be sorted.

Special Function

If the group by field is of Numeric/String/Date/Time type, you can select a special function for the field in the Special Function column to further specify to which level the data will be grouped by.

If Customize is selected, the Customized Function dialog will be displayed, in which you can set the function by your own.

Group Above

Specifies to place the selected group by field above the detail panel.

Group Left Above

Specifies to place the selected group by field left above the detail panel.

Group Left

Specifies to place the selected group by field left to the detail panel.

Moves the specified group one step up.

Moves the specified group one step down.

Sort Group By

Specifies how to sort the groups. Activated only when you have clicked Sort Group By from the Sort column to define the sorting manner of groups for the selected group level.

Special Group

Specifies how to group your information. Activated only when you have clicked Special Group from the Sort column to define a special group.

Select N

Opens the Select N dialog to specify the Select N condition.

Group Filter

Opens the Group Filter dialog to specify the group filter condition.

OK

Applies the changes and closes the dialog.

Cancel

Does not retain any changes and closes the dialog.

Help

Displays the help document about this feature.

Related topics:

• Managing columns/rows in a table