Printing Header/Title Lines Only One Time on a report

[Scott Walker]

John,

Thanks for taking the time to confirm my thinking.

Hope you have an nice holiday weekend.

Regards,

Scott



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From:
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[mailto:filepro-list-bounces+scottwalker=ramsystemscorp.com at lists.celestial.
com] On Behalf Of John Esak
Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2010 2:56 PM
To: john at valar.com; 'Scott Walker'; filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
Subject: RE: Printing Header/Title Lines Only One Time on a report 

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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