Printing report when a record is being updated

[GCC Consulting]

Scott,

Where does pftmp reside?

I usually have this set to the local users computer thereby reducing traffic
across the network for creating and running a report.


Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting

Office: 410-653-2813



> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celestial.com] On
> Behalf Of Scott Walker
> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 12:25 PM
> Cc: 'filePro Mailing List'
> Subject: RE: Printing report when a record is being updated
> 
> Ken,
> 
> The -ro flag indeed works like I wanted.  The main problem I see is the
> generating output part to report preparation takes about 10 times as long
with
> -ro set as without.
> 
> Is that to be expected?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: filepro-list-
> > bounces+scottwalker=ramsystemscorp.com at lists.celestial.com
> > [mailto:filepro-list-
> > bounces+scottwalker=ramsystemscorp.com at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf
> > bounces+Of
> > Kenneth Brody
> > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 10:15 AM
> > To: Scott Walker
> > Cc: 'filePro Mailing List'
> > Subject: Re: Printing report when a record is being updated
> >
> > On 1/10/2013 4:32 PM, Scott Walker wrote:
> > > I am printing a customer list.
> > >
> > > Someone else is updating a customer record and thus has that one
> > > record locked..
> > >
> > > Is there a way for me to get fp to just get the data for that
> > > customer record from disk (I'm not trying to update it) and thus get
> > > the report to continue without having to wait on the other user to
> > > release the record lock.  I know I will be getting the data from
> > > before whatever changes they make.
> >
> > If you are not updating records, I believe passing *report the "-ro"
> > (read-only) flag will turn off record locking as well.
> >
> > --
> > Kenneth Brody
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