PFPRINTER variable

[scooter6 at gmail.com]

Still having issues with this

This processing is subtotaled and has @wbrk1 where it does the calculating
The premise is the 'top' part of the report prints line detail from the
payment file - then @wrbk1 calculates the totals, if they owe us or we owe
them
I have tried putting different logic in place including a running variable
on 'balance' and if it's negative not to print etc
>From what I can see the 'print' command only works on 'records' and not
once processing is finishing and it's spitting out the report?

I can post the code if that would help - just trying to figure out can I
even prevent printing once it gets to @wbrk1 ?  Or do I need to 'kill' the
print BEFORE it gets there?

thanks
Scott
PDM




On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Nancy Palmquist <nlp at vss3.com> wrote:

> Scott,
>
> getenv("PFPRINTER") is one way to find out what is loaded into that
> variable.
>
> However, if it is not set and the default is running, you can get the
> current printer from @pr  (Current printer name) or @pt (current printer
> type)
>
> My gotcha's:
>
> Be sure you never name printers the same as tables. Filepro is clever
> enough to print to any printer that has a given table assigned.  So if
> you have a number of printers with a table called "laser" you can direct
> output to "laser" and it will turn up on one of those printers in the
> queue.  A neat trick but annoying if the printer you want is next to you
> and it never prints.
>
> If you change the printer name in processing, also set the printer type.
>
> I know FilePro will assume but I find it always a better rule to be
> clear as to what you want.  Saves much troubleshooting.
>
> Nancy
>
>
>
>
>
> On 7/9/2013 10:01 AM, scooter6 at gmail.com wrote:
> > I have some processing that prints our statements each month and it's
> > worked fine with no problem for years.
> >
> > The PFPRINTER is set through a menu the user passes through, so they have
> > the option to printer to 3-4 different printers....no problem there
> >
> > Now we've gotten more and more clients with a <credit balance> so I want
> to
> > be able to set PFPRINTER to 'null' if there is <credit balance>
> >
> > So, is there a way to set a variable to whatever PFPRINTER is set to when
> > the user executes the processing.....then put a GOSUB if it's a <credit>
> > that will set PRPRINTER=null
> > If it's NOT <credit balance> then I want to obviously reset PFPRINTER to
> > whatever it was when user executed the command....
> >
> > I haven't been able to figure out how to get the 'value' of PFPRINTER
> > pulled into processing to be able to 'manipulate' it?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Scott
> > PDM
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