In that case, one has to find other solutions. Yours will work only if you set the value from the command line. Any thing hard coded will come back to haunt you
At the R> SET VAR vSpecialCase TEXT = 'W2print' --In the code SET VAR vSpecialCase TEXT IF vSpecialCase IS NOT NULL AND + vSpecialCase = 'W2Print' THEN --Do Special Case ENDIF Dennis ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Doug Hamilton Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 10:21 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Printing Issue - SOLVED!! Dennis, couldn't that cause problems if the code relies on the actual logged-in R:Base user's name? How 'bout something similar to: --Somewhere before code is run SET VAR vSpecialCase TEXT = 'W2print' --In the code IF vSpecialCase IS NOT NULL AND + vSpecialCase = 'W2Print' THEN --Do Special Case ENDIF Doug Dennis McGrath wrote: This brings up a really handy technique for doing things like this, where you want something special but will have to remove the code when done. It is too easy to forget and trip over it later. IF (CVAL('NAME')) = 'unusualandunique' then --DO THE SPECIAL THING ENDIF At the R> SET NAME unusualandunique Now run the code. If you forget to remove the extra code, no one will ever trip over it. Dennis McGrath ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gray, Damon Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 9:30 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Printing Issue - SOLVED!! Man, this is NUTS!! Someone had hard coded in the W2.ASC to print all W2s where LName < "phillips" Augh!!! There was probably some issue last year that caused them to need to restart the run or something, so my predecessor's predecessor, hard coded a value in there... Anyway, as always, thanks to everyone on this list. You're all always so helpful! - damon ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of James Bentley Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 7:22 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Printing Issue Are their non-standard characters in any fields of that particular record? Jim Bentley American Celiac Society [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> tel: 1-504-737-3293 ________________________________ From: "Gray, Damon" <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 9:17:13 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Printing Issue We are printing W2 forms for about 650 employees. R:Base 6.5++ is printing about 2/3 of them, and stopping on a specific name. Thinking it may be a print buffer issue, we tried a beefier printer. Stopped on exactly the same name. Similarly, we tried printing from a different machine. Exact same result. Thinking this may be a workaround, I removed all rows from the temporary table down to the "Ps" which included the last employee printed and the two above him, leaving us with about 150 or so rows and re-ran the print job. It printed three W2s; the last employee printed and the two above him. Why won't these W2s print? I don't even know where to begin investigating this. Damon J. Gray Anvil Corporation Business Services (360) 937-0770
