Negative number in "Number of Forms" field

[Joe Chasan]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 01:46:36PM -0500, Boaz Bezborodko wrote:
> This is my first post to the list, so I hope this goes through.
> 
> I'm trying to redo a print form created by a previous programmer.  The
> form prints checks using one form for multiple invoices.  What he does
> is run every record down the list on the top of the form and then prints
> the totals and the address on the Grand Totals section.  The thing
> that's confusing is that he has the flag "Print grand totals on new
> form" as "Y" and "Number of forms down the page" as "-14".  Somehow this
> "-14" gets the totals and addresses printed on the same form as the data
> lines.
> 
> What's happening here?
> 
> One of the reasons I'm looking at this is that I need to change the
> formatting to print on laser-checks instead of continuous form checks.
> 
> Thanks in advance.

Hello Boaz, welcome to the list.

What the negative in # of forms down page does is tell filePro to 
allocate exactly that # of sets of data-lines on the page - regardless
of whether or not the report data actually needs that many.  It is
used to maintain fixed-position subtotal fields for pre-printed forms
to make sure things always line up, regardless of the data.

for example - if your data section is 2 lines, and you havea -14
in the # forms down page, filepro will always allocate 28 lines for
the data section, whether there are 2 records, 4, 7, or whatever
in that sort/subtotal.

note it only works for "report" type output.

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