Fw: Page x of y

[Christopher Yerry]

--- Ray Hoover <rhoover at fptech.com> wrote:

> Chris,
> 
> Please see ammended response.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ray Hoover" <rhoover at fptech.com>
> To: "Brian K. White" <brian at aljex.com>; "Christopher
> Yerry"
> <christopheryerry at yahoo.com>
> Cc: <fpsupport at fptech.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 12:22 PM
> Subject: Re: Page x of y
> 
> 
> > Christopher Yerry
> >
> > You wrote on Thursday, October 13, 2005 8:38 AM
> > Subject: Re: Page x of y
> >
> >
> > > >> The most annoying problem I have is getting
> "page x
> > > >> of y pages" working on a filepro report .
> > [...]
> > >
> > > My contentious comment:
> > > There is no reason page x of y is not in filepro
> this
> > > is 2005 not 1977. -- I like filepro have used it
> for
> > > 15 years (gasp), just wish they would make some
> Major
> > > (non hacky)improvements.
> > >
> > Try including a formula in your output processing
> to take advantage of
> > system maintained field @ts.
> >
> >         tp(3,.0,g) = (@ts / no_of_recs_per_page) +
> "1"
> >
> >         where the result "tp" is the total number
> of pages
> >
> The above only works if the number of records per
> page is fixed, which will
> not necessarily be the case if you have subtotals,
> remove unwanted blank
> lines turned on, PRINT statements, or PAGE
> statements, so it is a rather
> limited solution.
> 
> We will make sure that this is on the wishlist.
> 
> Ray Hoover

Ray - With all respect (And I have great respect for
      your abilities)

Set you report at 60 rows the font and page dimentions
(currier) to fit the same and vóla 

Just insert the text into the page 
 
Christopher Yerry
 



		
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