dates on Page headers

Dates in database are

Ist july 2006
2 nd july 2006
1 st sep 2006

Group by state1

I need to get count of Application nos for Group by state1 and date should be in header for a week. we have to pass date range values from date_range parameter

How do get it. The format is given below:

Sat Sunday Monday .. Friday
Statename 1/7/2006 2/7/2006 3/7/2006 .. 7/7/2006
State1 2 5 7 6



If I do group by date, then dates will not appear in a horizontal manner, Please help me how to proceed furtherTry the cross-tab format for the report.

Rashmi|||cross tab shoul not be used as per the clients requirement