Alastair,
Thanks for taking the time to explain the use of the SWITCH/ENDSW command. I have seen the command in the past and had an idea of what its use was, but your taking the time to show me how to fill my need, helps greatly. I may try this later in this application just to get the hang of the command. Jim ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alastair Burr Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 11:59 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Choosing report Jim, On of the things it took me a long while to get around to learning and using was the SWITCH/ENDSW command. Eventually, I had so many IF/ENDIF sections that a better way for multiple choices just had to be found! Razzak has already given you a solution to your CHOOSE question but - to my mind - your following code screams out to use SWITCH/ENDSW. Apologies if you know this already and/or have a reason to do it the way you are. It's impertinent of me as well, but I wish I had known how to use it earlier: SWITCH .vReportOutput CASE 'Screen' PRINT KayParkQuote WHERE QuoteID = .vQuoteID + OPTION SCREEN|WINDOW_STATE MAXIMIZED + |ZOOM_TYPE PERCENTAGE|ZOOMPERCENT 100 BREAK CASE 'Printer' PRINT KayParkQuote WHERE QuoteID = .vQuoteID + OPTION PRINTER BREAK CASE 'PDF' SET VAR vFileName = ('PDF\SalesQuote_'+.vQuoteID+'.PDF') PRINT KayParkQuote WHERE QuoteID = .vQuoteID + OPTION PDF + |FILENAME &vFileName + |TITLE Kay Park Recreation + |SUBJECT Sales Quote + |AUTHOR Sales Quote Processing Department + |OPEN ON BREAK DEFAULT GOTO LabelEnd -- whatever you need if one of the above is not chosen! BREAK ENDSW Also, even though you only have two reports at the moment and you could use IF/ENDIF perfectly effectively you could also deal with a Report choice to do nothing or any additional reports later were you to use SWITCH/ENDSW after the CHOOSE process as well - especially if your report names do not inform the users easily what one to choose: CHOOSE vChoose FROM ... SWITCH .vChoose CASE 'KayParkQuote' SET VAR vReport = 'KayParkQuote' BREAK CASE 'KayParkOrder' -- for example! SET VAR vReport = 'KayParkOrder' BREAK DEFAULT GOTO LabelEnd -- whatever you need if one of the above is not chosen! BREAK ENDSW If you were to use this after your CHOOSE then your PRINT command first lines in my first example need to be changed to: PRINT .vReport WHERE QuoteID = .vQuoteID + The great advantage that I find with SWITCH/ENDSW over IF/ENDIF is that it is so much easier to understand what you are doing and to add (or remove) choices as requirements change. Good luck, Regards, Alastair. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Belisle <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 1:20 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Choosing report Below is the present syntax for printing a specific report (KayParkQuote) to either the screen, printer or file. What I want to do is give the sales person the option of choosing between two different reports rather than using only the one report. Is the CHOOSE command the best command to use? I was thinking of using the below syntax right after the THEN: CHOOSE vreport FROM REPORTS WHERE (I am not sure what to put here) IN (KayParkQuote,KayParkQuote_Price) PRINT .vreport WHERE QuoteID = .vQuoteID I would use the above command for all three choices. (present syntax) IF vReportOutput = 'Screen' THEN PRINT KayParkQuote WHERE QuoteID = .vQuoteID + OPTION SCREEN|WINDOW_STATE MAXIMIZED + |ZOOM_TYPE PERCENTAGE|ZOOMPERCENT 100 ENDIF IF vReportOutput = 'Printer' THEN PRINT KayParkQuote WHERE QuoteID = .vQuoteID + OPTION PRINTER ENDIF IF vReportOutput = 'PDF' THEN SET VAR vFileName = ('PDF\SalesQuote_'+.vQuoteID+'.PDF') PRINT KayParkQuote WHERE QuoteID = .vQuoteID + OPTION PDF + |FILENAME &vFileName + |TITLE Kay Park Recreation + |SUBJECT Sales Quote + |AUTHOR Sales Quote Processing Department + |OPEN ON ENDIF Jim ________________________________ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.9.12/1823 - Release Date: 01/12/2008 19:59
