Two for the road, Report from Clerk & Nonstandard Subtotals

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 07:14:46AM -0600, Lerebours, Jose wrote:
> All that you describe here sounds exactly the way I run my
> reports with a one exception:
> 
>     I do not use PUTENV.  I dump everything on a field in
>     the point-of-reference (or stand) file, pass @rn as a 
>     parameter and then read the field from -v and finally,
>     use mid() to parse it.  I like the PUTENV approach, less
>     room for error - Using mid() can mess things up if you
>     do not get the positions right.
> 
> I too print to file and then give option to redirect output
> to an additional output device (mail, fax, or printer).  Now,
> what really got my attention about your post is the ability
> to convert document to any of the listed formats.  If I am not
> misreading your post, it appears that you can convert document
> from PCL to excel, PDF, fax, mail, etc. ... Now, that, I would
> like to know more about.

I'll expand that even more:

In some circumstances, I can see that people would like to be able to
see the history of what reports have been run.  If you add those report
parameters to a *permanent* record in 'stand', instead of one you
delete at the end, you get an audit trail.

Cheers,
-- jra
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