Print selection criteria on report?

[Dan Snyder]

Mike,

>> Now for my next question.  We have many
>> outputs/reports that our users load saved
>> selections for and then change the "value"
>> field in the selection to choose the
>> specific records that they want.  Is there
>> an easy way to have the selection criteria
>> print on the output form?  I spent a couple
>> hours looking through the help file and my
>> STN book, but I can't seem to find anything.
> 
> filePro selection sets are ascii files, so
> you could open them up and read their contents
> during the report processing phase.  However,
> the values the users insert when they are running
> a report are "transient", so they are not
> available to the report unless the users do a
> "save" on the selection set after they change
> their values.  You might not want them to do that,
> so they don't corrupt your selection sets.
That's what I thought.  With my question, I was just trying to make sure
that I didn't miss a system maintained variable that I could drop on the
form or something that could be done in less than say 10 lines of code
(which it seems that I haven't).

I know the 'best' way to do this would be to write program code that prompts
the user for the selection criteria and then saves that information for
future reference.  Unfortunately, for a filePro beginner whose job duties
include non-IT tasks, I don't have the time to learn how to do that and make
that change to all the forms in each of 20+ databases that I'm trying to
cleanup/fix.

Thanks to all for the various suggestions on how to handle this.  In a
couple months, when I do get these databases cleaned up and learn more about
filePro, I'll have a variety of things I can try for accomplishing this
goal.

Thank you,

Dan Snyder
Mercury Electronics
717-854-9557 ext. 224
http://www.mercuryelectronics.com/