rreport vs. dreport

Brian K. White brian at aljex.com
Fri Mar 22 13:02:31 PDT 2013


On 3/22/2013 3:37 PM, Ian Wood wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Kenneth Brody <kenbrody at spamcop.net> wrote:
>
>> On 3/22/2013 2:35 PM, Ian Wood wrote:
>>
>>> Okay, more fun discovered after our upgrade.
>>>
>> [...]
>>
>>   We have a report that runs from a filePro file and writes out to a .csv
>>> that then gets pulled into an Excel spreadsheet.
>>>
>>> Silly me expected the same report running in dreport to have the same
>>> results in rreport
>>>
>>> The report runs as expected in dreport, but is missing information when
>>> run
>>> from rreport.
>>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Quick question:
>>
>> Do you run rreport with "-y" to override automatic processing, but did not
>> compile the output processing with the same "-y"?
>>
>> --
>> Kenneth Brody
>>
>
>
> I have been around filePro since 1.0 days and have never had this issue
> arise. SMH. That worked for this instance.
>
> Now I have to go through all my menus and all my batch files, again, and
> find all instances of rreport that have a -y associated and recompile.

I didn't know about this the last time I looked into d*/r* 
discrepancies, so who knows this might have resolved our problems too.

> Another question. What if I have the same output process that uses the
> regular auto process, yet elsewhere uses an alternate auto process?

..or no auto. Good question. May just be a fundamental limit in the way 
fp works that some things are determined at compile time.

-- 
bkw




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