get clerk to act like report

[Walter D Vaughan Jr]

I see you are coming to the dark side, that is thinking that data is just a
collection, and that you should be able to anything at any time to any
collection.

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> bounces+wvaughan=steelerubber.com at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of
> Brian K. White
> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 4:57 AM
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> Subject: get clerk to act like report
> 
> 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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