Bill, Bob's right. What I showed was having R:Base write the data out in HTML tables with columns, and then R:Base launched the browser to display the report. It was a lot of hoops. In R:Base 7.0, not only is this incredibly easy, but then you -- or your user -- can "print" the report to generate an html version, or a pdf version, or a graphic image, or rich text format (that can load right into Word or other word processors as if it was a Word document), and on and on.
The time you save on your first one or two multi-columned reports will more than make up for the cost of the upgrade. Bill On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:43:38 -0400, Bob Castanaro wrote: >This really can only be done with the DOS product (and it takes going >through a lot of hoops). 7.0 performs this feature flawlessly, including >headers in the middle of columns etc. The problem is that windows >generally uses proportional fonts, and DOS used fixed fonts. I gave up >trying to do it in 6.5. You are right, there was someone (Bill Downall >maybe??) who presented something at the conference two years ago, but >waited for 7.0, and am glad I did. The reports feature of 7.0 does just >about everything you want.
