I've got a requirement to display a report with a break on the first column, using the HTML rowspan attribute, as discussed in a Re: Break Formatting Group Cells.

This time I hit on the idea of using a named column template and a report with analytic functions to provide the dynamic row counts that stumped us that time.

Unfortunately this doesn't work when pagination is used (try changing the number of rows displayed) - not an issue for my current requirement as all the rows have to be shown on one page anyway.

Any thoughts on how this could be overcome (I have my doubts - think the rowspan processing would need to be incorporated into the pagination engine) or other comments?