Jim, I don't want to tell you that you are barking up the wrong tree because there are many ways to do things. However I don't think that the OnBeforeGenerate is appropriate here.
If you create the report based on the temporary view then you can take the code and place it just before calling the report i.e. SET ERROR MESSAGE 677 OFF DROP VIEW speedywork SET VAR vspdy text FILLIN vspdy USING 'Speedy trailer number we are processing.' CREATE TEMPORARY VIEW speedywork (procnum, procdesc, tottime) AS SELECT + procnum, procdesc, SUM(timeout-timein)/100 FROM workinfo WHERE + procnum = 'spdy-82' AND procdesc CONTAINS .vspdy GROUP BY procnum, procdesc SET ERROR MESSAGE 677 ON PRINT myreport OPTION SCREEN This way the report only generates what your selection was on. -----Original Message----- From: "Jim Belisle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List) Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 10:44:39 -0600 Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: report So far this is the code I have in an ‘on before generate’ EEP for the report. SET ERROR MESSAGE 677 OFF DROP VIEW speedywork SET VAR vspdy text FILLIN vspdy USING 'Speedy trailer number we are processing.' CREATE TEMPORARY VIEW speedywork (procnum, procdesc, tottime) AS SELECT + procnum, procdesc, SUM(timeout-timein)/100 FROM workinfo WHERE + procnum = 'spdy-82' AND procdesc CONTAINS .vspdy GROUP BY procnum, procdesc SET ERROR MESSAGE 677 ON Since this is the first time (for me) creating a report that uses information received ‘on the fly’ so to speak, How do I get the report to use this information? If I am on the wrong tract, please let me know. Jim From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jan johansen Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 10:25 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: report Jim, I forget. What version are you in? Jan -----Original Message----- From: "Jim Belisle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List) Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 10:09:42 -0600 Subject: [RBASE-L] - report Now that I have this temporary view working, below is how I want to use it. I have a report based on a view that gives me all the costs associated with the products the company makes. This works fine for most of our products. On our larger products however, I need to insert the labor into the report by adding the total hours to assemble a specific model. Each model is different based on the “add ons” the customer wants so the labor to assembly that model is “job specific”. So what I want is to keep the existing report structure that gives me the material and labor for the parts associated with this model and then at the end go to the WORKINFO table and insert the hours for the assembly of that model. Would the best approach be to create a temporary table or view to insert the specific info into? (That is what I just did with the view you folks helped me with) If that is the case then I would need to know how best to put that into the report. I assume I would need to create an EEP within the report for this task. I have never run reports off temporary tables though I have created temporary tables & views within a command file. Jim
