Does anyone know of a good way to merge multiple reports at runtime?  I
basically have two situations I am trying to solve

1) Two separate report files, a summarized and detailed view, which need to
be printed separated occasionally, but more often than not are printed
together.  Since our printer now is printing banner pages, there is a banner
page between the two reports, because they are two separate jobs.  In an
effort to reduce wasted paper, we'd like to merge the two output jobs into
one job after the report is generated, and then send only the single job to
the printer.

2) We have another report (actually three individual reports) that we print
about 30-40 copies each month (with different data each printout), all at
the same time.  Again, because of the banner sheets we are printing before
each job, we would like to have this output as one single print job, and not
30-40 different jobs.

Does anyone know of a good way to do this?  I've thought about embedding the
final generated report inside a blank report at runtime, but I haven't seen
any way of doing this that I can get a demo of.  Does anyone have any other
suggestions for a good method for combining the output?

Thanks,

Ryan Gregg

If the reports don't use subreports, then you can make a main report and
include the others as your subreports. To get the second report to print
multiple times you are going to have to force the data to repeat itself (use
a field that is a dummy counter and group by this value). I have information
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