>>I am trying to produce a report with a parent-child table involved. The parent table has a budget field and the child table has a series of entries under the budgeted item.
>>I want to be able to show the budget sum in the summary band; how do I get the report to take a single budget value? At the moment, whatever I do, I get the budget figure multiplied by the number of child entries. So, if I have a parent record with a budget figure of 5 with 3 supporting child entries, the total budget for the group is 15 when it should be 5.
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>>thanks
>>Barry Sutton
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>Don't spend time 'fighting' the report designer
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>Prepare a cursor first with the data you need - use the cursor as the datasource for the report
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Yes, wise advice, I normally do exactly that but felt there should be a neater way than manipulating the cursor - but I am now back to that. At least I understand what is going on!

Barry.