With the Repeat Table On setting, you organize the data according to a specific key information. The table is then displayed several times, with the respective value of the key information as the table header for each table. The individual tables then contain only the data referring to the respective item.
With the Sort On setting, you can arrange these repeated tables based on an expression and the sorting direction. The Sort On settings are enabled if a Repeat Table On expression is set. By default, the Sort On field is identical to the Repeat Table On field.
For example, if you use a table showing sample names for different injections, you can repeat the table on the injection file name, and sort the tables on the sample name. As a result, there will be one table for each Injection file name, with the Injection file name as the table header, and each table will contain the sample name in the selected sort order.
If you add an Enumerations data field for the Sort On field, the sorting will be based on the corresponding numbers of enumerations and not on the text of enumeration. |