Probably the best you can do in 7.6 would be to give your users a PAUSE message if there is nothing to report. It would still produce the blank report, but at least your pause message would tell them there was no data and they should just exit the report.
Karen > Aborting the report using the PROPERTY REPORT CANCEL 'TRUE' > command as "Before Generate" EEP is among the Enhanced and > eXclusive Features of R:BASE eXtreme 9.0. > > http://www.RBASEeXtreme.com > > Using R:BASE 7.6 or Turbo V-8, you will have to do all error > checking, etc., prior to issuing the PRINT command. > > Conditional Error checking and/or verification of certain > requirements, and then the ability to abort the report as > "Before Generate" EEP is NOT a feature of R:BASE 7.6 and > Turbo V-8 for Windows. > > Very B

