Two kind of tables in the same layout

[alopas]

Hi,

I have a layout that I need to print as a list with two different formats,

depending on the kind of record.

I have two different kind of records: the ones that need to be printed in a drawed table of 2 colums (e.g. sizes S and L), and the ones that need to be printed in a table of 4 colums (S,L,XL,XXL, one column for each size).

I need to show both kind of records when I print a request. This is the way I have thought of doing this:

1.Doing a layout where the table contains two wide colums

2. Drawing 4 colums in Photoshop, that fits in the 2 column table

3. Make a "mini database", with 2 fields and two records:

field 1: sizes: two records (sizes S,L, or sizes S,L,XL,XXL)

field 2: container: two records: blank picture for sizes S,L, and the table drawed in Photoshop for sizes S,L,XL,XXL.

4. Go back to the main data base and relate the sizes field with the "mini database" sizes field.

5. Insert the picture field behind the 2 columns table drawed in the main database.

6. This way the default format of the layout is two colums, unless I choose a S,L,XL,XXL. In this case will relate the record with the 4 colums picture and will draw it behind the 2 colums one, making it 4 columns.

Before doing this I would like to know if there is an easiest way of doing it (I have the impression that I am complicating things too much)

Thanks in advance.