selective form printing

[Nancy Palmquist]

Daniel Bauer wrote:
> That's exactly the problem as far as I understand the form command doesn't
> work in output processing.  I also tried making the form 120 lines and
> blanking out all of the variables on lines 61-120 if I didn't want the 2nd
> page but I was still getting a blank 2nd page. It's a fairly complicated
> form so I was looking for an alternative route. 
> 
> Dan
> 
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: filepro-list-bounces+dan=onlinemgt.com at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-
> | bounces+dan=onlinemgt.com at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of Mike Schwartz
> (PC Support)
> | Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 10:24 PM
> | To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> | Subject: RE: selective form printing
> | 
> | > Basically I want to printing a run of forms, the catch is some records
> | > will have two forms and other records will only have one form.
> | > Consider it a letter with 1 or 2 pages. I can print the forms
> | > separately but I'd rather they be coallated and thats the problem.
> | >
> | > Dan
> | > dan at onlinemgt.com
> | 
> | 
> |      I'm not sure exactly what the problem is.  If you are running a
> | "processing only" processing table and then you issue the command:
> | 
> | FORM "form1"
> | 
> | followed by,
> | 
> | FORM "form2"
> | 
> | don't the two forms print right behind one another on the printer?
> | 
> |     If you need to run dreport with a "-F form1" option, you could make
> form
> | 1 double sized, then put all dummy variables on page 2.  If you don't want
> | anything to print on page 2, don't put anything in the dummy variables and
> | use the "remove unwanted blank lines" option to close up the blank lines.
> | (Be sure to put a non-printable character in a variable in each line of
> page
> | 1, so that you don't lose the spacing on that page.)
> | 
> |     Or, are you trying to do something else?

Daniel,

You can make filepro run using dclerk and generate output in a automatic 
way.

you can write input processing that will process each record in your 
file (or selective records) and using the form command generate your output.

The processing can move from record to record using MASS UPDATE mode - 
mostly forgotten - to provide details I have to review my docs but maybe 
this reminder will get someone to post more.

Or using the lookup - logic you could process your way thru the records 
you want.

That is what I would play with to solve your problem.

Nancy

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