I wholeheartedly agree with Dennis on his wish. I have to jump through
hoops for some reports. I would love it if it also would allow columns to span
pages on a report. Just blast out everything you want and then print it when
ready! It would be a major undertaking though.
Best regards,
Mike Young
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 08:30:34 -0500, Dennis McGrath wrote:
>One way to overcome this severer limitation in the way RBWIN does
reports,
>is to base the report on a temporary table. It will take some ingenuity on
>your part to include the columns you need for beakpoints and all. But, it
>usually can be done, but is an arduous exercise.
>
>The other option, of course is to go to an odbc report writer. You may
have
>the same problems there too.
>
>On my wish list is reports within reports in RBWIN, especially if the
>sub-reports could be in break headers or footers, and be on independent
>tables. Would be an extraorinary tool, if done right, fixing the existing
>report bugs. Not a trivial undertaking, but a complete rethink of the whole
>process.
>
>-- Dennis McGrath
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>
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