get clerk to act like report

[Nancy Palmquist]

Brian,

I do this very thing and print checks and order forms and special 
documents all from clerk, depending on the data on the record.  It works 
great.

We do this in "real time" as the user adds the record, or in batch mode 
- where the user just enters the data and then a batch process runs and 
prints all the reports in one pass.  We had interesting issues with 
managing printers and stuff, but it works.  (They have a bucket load of 
printers and we assigned the jobs to certain printers as they are 
entered, and then can grab just that batch of orders to process so the 
user that did the work and pick it off the printer and double check the 
contents.)

I would say our biggest challenge with this was that we were printing 
filepro Forms and also documents and the sequence was an issue.

Each thing would make a new spool file and I had to time them so they 
hit the spooler in the right order.  Many SLEEP commands in certain 
places to give the longer stuff time to process and it has been working 
great for years now.

Good luck.


Nancy
On 4/4/2013 4:57 AM, Brian K. White wrote:
> 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?
>

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