Introduction to PowerBuilder

N-Up Presentation Style

The N-Up presentation style displays data in a format similar to that of the newspaper columns, allowing you to use space efficiently by displaying more than one record across the pages. Another example would be a telephone directory, where you find multiple columns. Let's create a DataWindow with product_no and product_description fields and with two records per row.

1. Select File > New menu option and click on DataWindow tab page.
2. Select N-Up presentation style.
3. Select SQL SELECT data source.
4. Select product_master table and click Open button.
5. Select product_no, product_description columns from the product_master table by clicking on those columns.
6. Select 'File > Return to DataWindow Painter' menu option.
7. PowerBuilder prompts you for the number of records per row. Type in 2.

PowerBuilder displays the data from left to right and then top to bottom as you see in the example above. PowerBuilder doesn't allow you to alter this organization, since there isn't any option to display the data from top to bottom and then left to right.

Once you specify the number of records for the detail row and go to the Design View, you can't change the number of records. If you want, you need to do so from scratch all over again.

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