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Terry,

The &12X command is quite functional, and can be modified to be more
intuitive.

The string of characters &12X is a PCL command for many printers that
use the HP Drivers.  In this example, the 2 is the quantity.  If they
always want three, it would be simple to change the string to: AL
BEFORE.PRINT D(27)_"&l3X"^!

(By the way, the ^! directs the command to the printer like ^# goes to
the screen.)

But, you can do more.  You could give the end user control of how many
copies to print.  Create a temporary field called xx.copies.
   DAT=PINT
   FNC=LST
   JFY=R
   LEN=1
   VAL=999

Add this field to your select field like this:
   xx.copies  GT   Number of Copies:

Then, change the Footnote to:
AL BEFORE.PRINT D(27)_"&l"_b.xx.copies_"X"^!

Whah-lah!!!

The user can determine how many copies they want.

Here's another option.  Let's say the report is written in OE.ORD as an
output format for an OE Procedure.  You could have a query on the
procedure (or category) screen that asks the user how many copies of the
"form" do they want.  For this example, my CDS query is "OE.COPY".

Add the following footnote to NPR report:

AL START D(27)_"&l"[EMAIL PROTECTED]"OE.COPY"]_"X"^!

Again, this gives the end user the option of how many copies to print at
a time.

Brian

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Hi!  I got the following code off of the 'L', it makes the NPR
automatically print 2 copies of a report.  I am not sure what the code
is doing, and now my users want 3 copies!  Help!

AL BEFORE.PRINT D(27)_"&l2X"^!

Thanks,


Terry Angeloni
Provena Health Information Services
Application Specialist II
ph 815.730.2858
fax 815.744.7565


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