What is a "Report Break"?

Report Breaks are set on specific elements within a Report. They allow the Report to group data and perform operations based on that grouping.

Clicking on Group Headers in your Report brings up a "Report Section Properties" dialog window. From here you can select the element on which to break, the Break Value, or to add additional Groups. A Group indicates a group of records. If you group by State, for example, you are telling Sesame to do something whenever the State value changes. If you set a group in a Table report to Break on Keyword element, Sesame produces a Keyword Report; sorting and breaking the records by the values in that keyword field. Calculations such as totals and subtotals can be easily incorporated into your Report if divided by Salary Groups, for example.

You can create multiple Groups as well as multiple breaks in a single group by right-clicking the header and using the arrows in the top section of the Report Section Properties dialogue to cycle through and set different elements for break. Using the multiple breaks feature, you can break on an element and click on the "No repeat" box to tell Sesame to only print the break value for the first record in the group.

For more information on Reports and Report Breaks, see the "Designing Reports" section in the Sesame User Guide.