# Column Labels On Crosstab Report?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/column-labels-on-crosstab-report/1881>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [May 31, 2010, 11:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/column-labels-on-crosstab-report/1881 "2010-05-31T23:05:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![ISDProj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58956e/32.png) [@ISDProj](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ISDProj)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2010, 11:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/column-labels-on-crosstab-report/1881/1 "2010-05-31T23:05:28Z")

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I have a crosstab report that has multiple “grouping columns” and am unable to get the report designer to put labels on those columns.  
I have tried simply adding “text boxes” with the labels for the columns but they don’t resize to match the columns they are describing.  
Have a look at this:  
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(sorry that it is so rough but you should be able to get the idea)

Note that this report has a varying number of groups & Crosstab columns which is why I need the Grouping column labels “linked” to the grouping columns they represent.

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**Author:** ![benjamin.f.mcneill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@benjamin.f.mcneill](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/benjamin.f.mcneill)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 9:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/column-labels-on-crosstab-report/1881/2 "2018-05-25T21:33:46Z")

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Do you have your header columns property set to 4. Also do you have the data key property is set the the name of the data source powering the report?

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**Author:** ![ISDProj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58956e/32.png) [@ISDProj](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ISDProj)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 9:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/column-labels-on-crosstab-report/1881/3 "2018-05-27T21:53:30Z")

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Hi Benjamin,  
This is an 8 year old request that I pretty much gave up on back in 2010 when it had no response. What I ended up doing for that report is left those column headers blank and added a “Text line” above it that listed the column names in order.  
e.g.  
`Columns are: <col1> <col2> <col3> <col4> <col5> <col6> <col7>`  
(obviously they aren’t actually named “col[x]” - just to show what I did.)

This is also running within the earlier “Report engine” as we are still using 7.5.14 LTS. (until I get all of our current projects authentication updated to the newer format - then I hope to shuffle the whole lot up to 7.9. Timing and resources  
are the only roadblocks to this plan 😉 )

Thanks anyway,

Regards,

Peter.