PFPRINTER variable

[scooter6 at gmail.com]

Well this is front ended with processing that asks for a client number
range and a date range -- so hard to determine those things until the
records are selected for the criteria provided....someone could ask just to
print one specific client or a range of clients and about any date range
you can imagine, so the last suggestion of a 1 or 0 wouldn't really work -
because for a date range of two months ago, they very well could have been
owed and not a credit balance



On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Richard D. Williams <richard at appgrp.net>wrote:

> On 7/12/2013 9:04 AM, scooter6 at gmail.com wrote:
> > 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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> Scott,
>
> Why don't you place variables in your sub-total/total area and just not
> fill them in if the balance is negative.
> That would simply stop the printing of the total area.
>
> I think you may want to not print your detail if the balance is negative.
> You can do that in your selection process before the records are
> selected for that client/customer.
> That would require you to calc the bal due on each record. Too much time.
>
> The best way is you use a process only on a blank record somewhere using
> *clerk.
>  From this record you can lookup into your customer/client file and get
> each client/customer and calc. the balance due.
> If it is negative, do a getnext and check the next client/customer.
> But if it is positive, execute a system command to print for that one
> client/customer.
>
> This assumes you have an index already in your detail file by
> client/customer.
> I often have a single character field that indicates which ones are
> paid/unpaid (1 or 0 respectively) and build an index on that field with
> the client/customer number.
>
> Just some thoughts,
>
> Richard D. Williams
>
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