Printing Header/Title Lines Only One Time on a report
John Esak
john at valar.com
Sat May 29 11:56:02 PDT 2010
Screwed up on the previous email...
> *a
> *b
> *c
> *d
> *e
> *f
> *d *i *c *a
Obvi0ously, it would have to be something like:
> *a
> *b
> *c
> *d
> *e
> *f
> *dd *i *cc *aa
I just did it all too fast... But I'm sure most people knew what I meant.
John
> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.co
m] On Behalf Of John Esak
> Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2010 2:46 PM
> To: 'Scott Walker'; filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: RE: Printing Header/Title Lines Only One Time on a report
>
> Hate to say it, but I've been doing exactly that foerever... Not just
> putting all the header into variables (as well as data,
> subtotals and totlas
> area), but also working for a living. :-)
>
> Unfortunately, that is the only way, but it gets easier and
> easier. The two
> methods are to put each thing into a variable of its own, or put one
> variable per line and construct the variables in processin.
>
>
> ABC Company 10/23/10
> 123 Street Page: 31
> Report of Invoicews
>
> Date Inv# Client Amount
> ----------------------------------------------
> *d *I *c *a
>
>
> Could be done either as:
>
> *aa *@td
> *bb *pn
> *cc
>
> *dd *ii *cu *am
> ----------------------------------------------
> *d *I *c *a
>
> Or sometimes it's easier to do:
>
> *a
> *b
> *c
> *d
> *e
> *f
> *d *i *c *a
>
>
> And you just concatenate/build the variables for each line of
> the header
> that you want. Even the line of dashes, and blank lines... Clear these
> variables on the pages you don't want them... The above
> method leaves the
> data line in separate variables. This is sometimes useful to
> make use of
> the filePro =subtotal and =total feature. If you carry your
> own toatals in
> the processing, you can make these single line variables as well.
>
> HINT: If you have certain lines n the data area that have to be lear
> sometimes and filled at others, and you want those lines to
> remain blank...
> If you use the close up blank lines function, they will close
> up when you
> don't want them to because filePro will see them as empty.
> Just fill lines
> you want to stay blank with a chr("13"). This will just be a carriage
> return and do nothing but keep the line empty. FilePro wqill
> not close it up
> because it thinks there is something there.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com
> > [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.co
> m] On Behalf Of Scott Walker
> > Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 11:55 PM
> > To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> > Subject: Printing Header/Title Lines Only One Time on a report
> >
> > I have a report format.
> >
> >
> >
> > The heading/title lines section has about 32 lines. On the
> > first page of
> > the report I want to print all of them. On subsequent pages
> > of the report I
> > only want to print the first 3 lines of it.
> >
> >
> >
> > I know a heading this big does not make sense, but it's grown
> > over the last
> > 20 years to take so many lines. I would not have designed it
> > this way it I
> > was doing it from scratch.
> >
> >
> >
> > The only way I can think of to do this is to stuff everything
> > into dummy
> > variables for the first page, and only stuff a few things into dummy
> > variables for subsequent pages. I'll have to put the field
> > labels and the
> > data into the dummy variables & I think this is going to be a
> > real pain to
> > get everything lined up. Then I'll tell fp to remove
> > unwanted blank lines.
> >
> >
> >
> > Is there an easier way or do I actually have to work for a living?
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >
> >
> > Scott
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Scott Walker
> >
> > RAM Systems Corp
> >
> > (704) 896-6549
> >
> > ScottWalker at RAMSystemsCorp.com
> >
> >
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