Thanks, Greg. Sorry, Cache. I mis-associated global listing behavior with FileMan behavior. Still learning . . .
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Greg Woodhouse Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 9:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] FileMan in Cache It is not undocumented (you can always associate a label with a field) and it has nothing to do with Cache. Printing in Fileman is unrelated to the global lister. --- Bob Beckley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you, Marianne. That did the trick. Is this an undocumented > feature > of FileMan? I'm looking for it in the manuals, but so far no luck. > I'll > have to make a special note of it in the margin. Thanks again. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Marianne > Susaanti Follingstad > Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 8:29 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] FileMan in Cache > > > FM only prints the higher level entry once when printing subfile > info. If > you want the higher level info printed on each line, you need to > specify it > to print within the multiple. So in your case, you would hold off on > specifying the employee, supervisor info until within the day > subfile. For > your example (FM might ask some questions which I'm not showing, just > to be > sure it knows what you want): > FIRST PRINT FIELD: PAY PERIOD > THEN PRINT FIELD: EMPLOYEE > THEN PRINT EMPLOYEE SUB-FIELD: DAY # > THEN PRINT DAY # SUB-FIELD: EMPLOYEE;C12;L18 > THEN PRINT DAY # SUB-FIELD: APP. SUPERVISOR;C35;L18 > THEN PRINT DAY # SUB-FIELD: TIMEKEEPER POSTING;C58;L18 > THEN PRINT DAY # SUB-FIELD: > THEN PRINT EMPLOYEE SUB-FIELD: > THEN PRINT FIELD: > > > > Bob Beckley wrote: > > Greg, we're running Cache/VMS and have no choice (as far as I can > figure) > regarding consecutive duplicate value suppression. Our global > listings > automatically (it seems) employ it, and now I've noticed it in a > print > menu > option I just created. I just want to "un-suppress" them. > Here's an > example: > print template: > > FIRST PRINT FIELD: PAY PERIOD > THEN PRINT FIELD: EMPLOYEE > THEN PRINT EMPLOYEE SUB-FIELD: EMPLOYEE;C12;L18 > THEN PRINT EMPLOYEE SUB-FIELD: APP. SUPERVISOR;C35;L18 > THEN PRINT EMPLOYEE SUB-FIELD: DAY # > THEN PRINT DAY # SUB-FIELD: TIMEKEEPER POSTING;C58;L18 > THEN PRINT DAY # SUB-FIELD: > THEN PRINT EMPLOYEE SUB-FIELD: > THEN PRINT FIELD: > Heading: TIME & ATTENDANCE RECORDS LIST Replace ... With T&A > Check > Replace > T&A Check > STORE PRINT LOGIC IN TEMPLATE: ZZBBPRINT1 > Are you adding 'ZZBBPRINT1' as a new PRINT TEMPLATE? No// Y > (Yes) > > printout: > > T&A Check JAN 29,2005 21:41 > PAGE 1 > PAY > PERIOD EMPLOYEE APP. SUPERVISOR > TIMEKEEPER > POSTING > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ---- > ---- > > 04-06 xxxx,OSCAR L JR > > These are null matches, which > we want. > > xxxxxxx,ALVIN C xxxxxx,SANDRA M > xxxxxx,SANDRA M > > xxxxxx,SANDRA M > > xxxxxx,SANDRA M > > xxxxxx,SANDRA M > > No suppression employed via the print template. Where's it > coming from, > then? Weird, huh? Thanks for your time. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Greg > Kreis > Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 7:27 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] FileMan in Cache > > The Cache display of globals that suppresses the subscripts is > just a > formatting choice. It is just how they chose to present them. It > doesn't influence how globals work or how FM works. > > FM can be made to suppress repeating values in a column through > the use > of a suffix of ";N" for a field specification in the print > template. > Look at the print template of the report that you showed here. > The > fields normally repeat. You have to work to suppress them. > > Bob Beckley wrote: > > >If you look at a global listing in the Cache/VMS environment, > you'll > notice > >that the global array to the left of the "=" sign is listed only > once. > >Subsequent entries with the same global array are blank to the > left of > the > >"=" sign, with "new" data to the right, like so: > > > >^ABC(1,"ID")=123^124 > > =321^421 > > =534^543 > > ... > > > >This apparently carries over into FileMan reports, like so: > > > >Jones, John 12344 Yes Vet > > 43214 No Vet > > > >Both entries are for John Jones, but his name is listed only > once. > > > >Does anyone know how to make, in this example, "John Jones" > appear on > each > >and every line instead of a blank? I don't know of any print > qualifiers > >that cover this. (Perhaps I should take it up with > Intersystems?) > Thanks > >in advance. > > > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------- > >This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive > Reporting > >Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save > time > >by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, > RTF, etc. > >Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl > >_______________________________________________ > >Hardhats-members mailing list > >[email protected] > >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > > > > > > > > -- > Greg Kreis http://www.PioneerDataSys.com > > "You are today where your thoughts have brought you, you will > be tomorrow where your thoughts take you." (James Lane Allen) > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive > Reporting > Tool for open source databases. 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