GroupOn Property

Applies To

Report, Sorting And Grouping Box.

Description

You can use the GroupOn property to specify how to group data in a field or expression by data type. For example, this property lets you group a Date field by Month.

Setting

The GroupOn property settings available for a field depend on its data type, as the following table shows. For an expression, all of the settings are available. The default setting for all data types is Each Value.

Field data type	Setting	Groups records with	Visual Basic
Text	(Default) Each Value	The same value in the field or expression.	0
	Prefix Characters	The same first n number of characters in the field or expression.	1
Date/Time	(Default) Each Value	The same value in the field or expression.	0
	Year	Dates in the same calendar year.	2
	Qtr	Dates in the same calendar quarter.	3
	Month	Dates in the same month.	4
	Week	Dates in the same week.	5
	Day	Dates on the same date.	6
	Hour	Times in the same hour.	7
	Minute	Times in the same minute.	8
AutoNumber, Currency, Number	(Default) Each Value	The same value in the field or expression.	0
	Interval	Values within an interval you specify.	9

You can set the GroupOn property in the Sorting And Grouping box, a macro, or Visual Basic.

Using Visual Basic, you set this property in the Open event procedure of a report.

Remarks

To set the GroupOn property to a value other than Each Value, you must first set the GroupHeader or GroupFooter property or both to Yes for the selected field or expression.

Example