get clerk to act like report

Brian K. White brian at aljex.com
Thu Apr 4 01:57:29 PDT 2013


I want to run a report that just calls a call table once for each record.

Except in that call table I want to issue form commands, so I need clerk 
not report. Or else I need report with system clerk commands just to do 
the forms, which I would rather avoid.

Records are selected via selection set. So the main input processing is 
just one line to call the call table. Except that by itself doesn't 
actually work. It just sits there at entsel on the first record. If I 
make the table:
---top---
end
@entsel
call "mytable"
end
---end---

Then I can walk the records and the call table runs on each, by pressing 
enter. But that's no good and I can't believe that adding a pushkey is 
really the answer either :)

So how can I construct an input processing and clerk command line 
options so that clerk will essentially behave as report and run once per 
selected record and then exit at the end of the selected records?

-- 
bkw


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