# Elementname: `Group`

## Description

Create a virtual page that behaves like a real page but is not placed into the PDF.

Allowed attributes: name

Child elements: Contents, Grid

Parent elements: AtPageCreation, AtPageShipout, Case, Contents, ForAll, Loop, Otherwise, Record, SavePages, Until, While

### Attributes

name (text)

  Name of the group that is created.

## Example

    <Record element="data">
      <Group name="Some group">
        <!-- Optional, taken from the current page -->
        <Grid width="10mm" height="10mm"/>
        <Contents>
          <PlaceObject column="3" row="2">
            <Textblock width="14">
              <Paragraph>
                <Value>Text</Value>
              </Paragraph>
            </Textblock>
          </PlaceObject>
          <PlaceObject column="2" row="4">
            <Textblock width="14">
              <Paragraph>
                <Value>Nächster Text</Value>
              </Paragraph>
            </Textblock>
          </PlaceObject>
        </Contents>
      </Group>
      <PlaceObject groupname="Some group" column="1" row="1" />
    </Record>

## See also

PlaceObject Contents

# Commands

- A
- Action
- AddToList
- AtPageCreation
- AtPageShipout
- Attribute
- B
- Barcode
- Bold
- BoldItalic
- Bookmark
- Box
- Br
- Case
- Color
- Column
- Columns
- Contents
- Copy-of
- DefineColor
- DefineFontfamily
- DefineTextformat
- Element
- EmptyLine
- Fontface
- ForAll
- Frame
- Grid
- Group
- HSpace
- Hyphenation
- I
- Image
- Include
- InsertPages
- Italic
- Layout
- Li
- LoadDataset
- LoadFontfile
- Loop
- Makeindex
- Margin
- Mark
- Message
- NewPage
- NextFrame
- NextRow
- Ol
- Options
- Otherwise
- Output
- Pageformat
- Pagetype
- Paragraph
- PlaceObject
- PositioningArea
- PositioningFrame
- ProcessNode
- Record
- Regular
- Rule
- SaveDataset
- SavePages
- Sequence
- SetGrid
- SetVariable
- SortSequence
- Stylesheet
- Sub
- Sup
- Switch
- Table
- Tablefoot
- Tablehead
- Tablerule
- Td
- Text
- Textblock
- Tr
- Transformation
- U
- URL
- Ul
- Until
- VSpace
- Value
- While

Version: 2.2.0 | Start page | Command reference | Other language: German