# Reporting Flex Tables

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reporting-flex-tables/82148>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective, reporting\
**Created:** [November 20, 2023, 5:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reporting-flex-tables/82148 "2023-11-20T17:53:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Schiavone8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Schiavone8](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Schiavone8)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 5:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reporting-flex-tables/82148/1 "2023-11-20T17:53:45Z")

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I am trying to make a report that results in tabular data. This data could create 5-50 rows of entries. Is there any way to make a table act like a flex repeater where it will expand to the number of rows needed? I don't want to have to put one entry per page because it ~might~ contain that many entries and get cut off.

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**Author:** ![Transistor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/transistor/32/3380_2.png) [@Transistor](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Transistor)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reporting-flex-tables/82148/2 "2023-11-20T17:56:17Z")

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I asked the [same thing](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/report-table-auto-size/81962/1) five days ago. (I have multiple smaller tables that I would like to flow in much the same way as they might in Word.)

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 5:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reporting-flex-tables/82148/3 "2023-11-20T17:59:18Z")

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Put everything in a table group.

A table by itself in a report will expand to multiple pages for the given rows. But that breaks if there is anything else in the report. Table groups create a hierarchy where multiple items can occupy variable space across multiple pages. Or, possibly omitted entirely.

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**Author:** ![Schiavone8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Schiavone8](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Schiavone8)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 6:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reporting-flex-tables/82148/4 "2023-11-20T18:17:04Z")

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If I am trying to put a table inside of another table using non-structured rows, does this same idea apply?

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 6:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reporting-flex-tables/82148/5 "2023-11-20T18:18:37Z")

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Not sure. I've not done that.

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**Author:** ![Schiavone8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Schiavone8](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Schiavone8)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 6:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reporting-flex-tables/82148/6 "2023-11-20T18:20:07Z")

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Okay. I am thinking the grouping may give me what I want, I just have to mess with it a bit. I just have a table of materials per run that I want to show in a tabular form with the materials listed under the run. So it would list a run and then the materials in it, then the next run and so on.