# Transaction Group Reporting Parameters

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/transaction-group-reporting-parameters/46457>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** scripting\
**Created:** [May 6, 2021, 9:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/transaction-group-reporting-parameters/46457 "2021-05-06T21:14:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 6

<div class="post-metadata">

**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:** [May 7, 2021, 11:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/transaction-group-reporting-parameters/46457/6 "2021-05-07T23:46:41Z")

</div>

FWIW, I haven't had to do this....

Anyways, Ignition's report generator is not dynamic. It isn't related to transaction groups, either. To get something like what you describe, you will have to create a report that uses a fixed set of column names for raw data, where that raw data is queried by script instead of binding, so you can post-process the column names into the names the report is stuck using. You'll have to use dynamic column widths so you can set unused columns to zero width (assuming a bit here...). You'll want to use dynamic column headings, too, to fake the displayed column names.

This discussion is relevant:

> [@Dynamic Table in Reporting](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/dynamic-table-in-reporting/21397/9):
>
> If the formatting difference you’re looking for is the number of rows/columns in the table, and the names on the columns, this can be done, but it is a big of a slog. Here’s how I did it: In my report, I have a table with the most columns I expect I could ever need (7 in my case). That table looks for column names like ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’ in the dataset it is pulling from. Some layout features of the cells like hidden and width are bound to custom report data named like ‘COL\_x\_HIDDEN’ and ‘CO…

Maybe @justin.brzozoski will enlighten us further... (:

---

_[View the full topic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/transaction-group-reporting-parameters/46457)._
