Printing report when a record is being updated

Scott Walker ScottWalker at RAMSystemsCorp.com
Fri Jan 11 13:39:56 PST 2013


This is Unix/Linux not windows.

Regards,

Scott

> -----Original Message-----
> From: GCC Consulting [mailto:rkreiss at gccconsulting.net]
> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 4:29 PM
> To: 'Scott Walker'
> Cc: 'filePro Mailing List'
> Subject: RE: Printing report when a record is being updated
> 
> 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
> > > bounces+Behalf 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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