Creating variable width hyperblocks
Formula lists are dynamic which makes them useful in situations in which the report designer does not know what the content of the report will be. For example, you can create a relational list which returns multiple columns from a relational data source. If you insert that list in a hyperblock in a report, only the first column of data is displayed. To display the remaining columns, you must create additional output cells in the hyperblock, or expand the hyperblock and insert a separate RDB formula for each column of data. If you do not know which relational list will be used in the report, for example in a database independent report, then you cannot know how many additional output cells to create, or how many RDB formulas.
To use a formula list to display mulitple columns of a relational list: