Is there a way you could print the report to an Excel spreadsheet instead? I've done that. Users are instructed that when they make changes that they type the changes in columns off to the side, or type directly into the spreadsheet but then change the background color or font or bold the field they changed. That, of course, relies on the user doing what they were instructed to do! You could have your code easily print the PDF first so they have something easy to view and print, but at the same time print to a spreadsheet for editing. If you want to do more code, you produce a spreadsheet, with extra columns off to the side with column headers, have your users type corrections in those extra columns. Then you can import the spreadsheet into a temp table, check those extra columns for data, and then do an update. But obviously that's a bit of code to write.
Karen -----Original Message----- From: 'Patti Jakusz' via RBASE-L <[email protected]> To: RBASE-L <[email protected]>; RBASE-L <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Apr 2, 2020 12:58 pm Subject: [RBASE-L] - Any suggestions for this? So we're all working at home now. The data-entry staff and me have access to our database via Remote Desktop. Many of our reports are output/input documents. We print out reports like stuff about our clients, usually dates of home visits, phone calls, doctor visits, etc. The health care workers add things like dates of recent activity, and then the data-entry clerks enter it in the database. That all works well on paper. Now we're trying to send the reports to people via One Drive. But they can't edit them on the computer with the new info. Even if we were to purchase Adobe Pro, it's really not easy to edit pdfs. The reports have lines and grids on them, so it's hard to use txt. RTF files aren't allowing easy editing. it allows you to change dates, but not add new ones. Does anyone have any ideas to try? Thanks,Patti Jakusz -- For group guidelines, visit http://www.rbase.com/support/usersgroup_guidelines.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbase-l/1225137097.1108093.1585850322057%40mail.yahoo.com. -- For group guidelines, visit http://www.rbase.com/support/usersgroup_guidelines.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbase-l/1913498851.1140459.1585852425375%40mail.yahoo.com.
