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Primary Detail Group

The generation of the primary detail group controls the contents of all other fields in the report. Each primary detail group produced is the owner of a larger set of lines, consisting of the following:

• Report heading
• Page heading
• Control break headings and footings
• Page footing
• Report footing
• One or more secondary detail groups, if any are produced for that primary group

The primary detail group should always be the first detail group produced for a report. When the primary detail group is produced, all of the above lines are produced with it. When the report prints, only the lines required, based on the position of the primary detail group in the report and on the page, print.