RReport flags

[Boaz Bezborodko]

I had used this in the past, but John's environment method has the 
advantage of being able to pass an almost unlimited amount of variables 
while having them named.

Boaz

Rkreiss at verizon.net] wrote:
> To post from phone:
>
> Another method would be to pass the parameters using the -r variables on the command line (another John suggestion) and @pm etc to retrieve the value(s).
>
> One can combine parameters and hash them in the -v select process used to run the report.
>
> I currently use the method to pass record numbers to select for a report of exceptions to run when the primary report finishes. These numbers are seperated by commas and I use strtok and mid to get each record number to place into an array.
>
> A dash lookup handles selecting each record.
>
> Both methods work nicely.
>
> Richard Kreiss
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boaz Bezborodko <boaz at mirrotek.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 8:52 AM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Cc: Scott Walker <ScottWalker at RAMSystemsCorp.com>
> Subject: Re: RReport flags
>
>   
>> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:23:42 -0500
>> From: "Scott Walker" <ScottWalker at RAMSystemsCorp.com>
>> Subject: RReport flags
>> To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
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>> I want to have it to:
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>>  
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>> 1) not ask which index to use
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>>                 2)not stop at sort screen
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>>                 3) not ask if I want to select all records (if possible)
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>>                 3) bring up a blank extended selection set screen
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>>  
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>> What is the right combination of flags for this?
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>>  
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>> Thanks a lot!
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>>  
>>
>> Scott
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>>     
>
> You might want to consider John Esak's method of running a report from a 
> SYSTEM command that he has in his FilePro Survivor videos*.  He creates 
> a window with dummy variables for the selection criteria where you can 
> do all the checks you want on the data, and allow the user to move 
> around until they are happy.  Then, when they "escape" to run the report 
> he saves the selection criteria in environment variables using PUTENV 
> and runs the report with the SYSTEM command.  A selection table is 
> created that reads in the environment variables using GETENV and selects 
> the records.
>
>
> I just watched some of these last night and I'm sorry that I waited so 
> long to do so.
>
> Boaz
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