GroupBegin

Use this section level rule to define the first section in a group of sections. A group is a set of sections delimited by a begin section and an end section that is processed as a single unit.

Using this rule, you specify which sections are grouped on the printed pages. Each GroupBegin rule must have a corresponding GroupEnd rule. With these rules you can:

• Expand boxes to surround a section group with user-defined margins
• Keep a group of sections together on a page
• Paginate vertically with headers, footers, and overflow sections at the group level
• Paginate horizontally with left and right margins that can contain lists
• Format fields with currently used rules
• Create nested groups
• Vary row heights by the tallest field size or set a standard height for all rows
• Pre-define the spacing between rows
• Set a minimum number of lines to be left on the first or last page
• Create a columnar layout

Syntax

GroupBegin (GroupFunction(parameters(sub parameters)))

The group functions include:

• Box
• GroupPagination
• List
• StayTogether
• Column

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