On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 8:28 PM, John Morris <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-10-27 at 09:03 -0400, Whalen, Liam wrote:
>> >
>> > I currently truncate long fields like title or author on
>> > reports so that it can fit in a nice tabular format.  Can't
>> > find a way to do that with the generator.
>>
>> The tabular form of output that Evergreen uses for its reports is an HTML 
>> table, so, as long as you don't have extremely long words, the table will 
>> break up long fields into multiple lines.
>
> I'm old school.  If I could find a way to get greenbar fanfold paper
> into a laser printer I'd be printing reports on it.  But I ran a test
> and the consensus is multiple lines is ok and everyone else liked the
> look so I'm outvoted.  Down to one remaining problem.  I have a three
> day fudge factor coded in so items wouldn't start popping out on the
> report until it is three days overdue.  Can't find a way to do the
> equivalent to "AND due_date < (NOW() + '3 days')"
>
> Also interesting that you can't get landscape printouts.  The option is
> greyed out when printing anything in the staff client.
>
> And just an observation... Am I the first to notice != is missing from
> the list of operators?  IS NOT NULL is there, IS NOT NULL or Blank, Not
> between and Not in list are all there but no basic Not Equal.
>

There's not, but you can do it.  You can use "Not In List", which is
"x NOT IN (...)", and for a one element list is equivalent to "x <>
y".  To be honest, I'm tempted to remove the "Equals" operator and
document the use of "In List", but for the templates out there that
use "Equals" today.

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