G'day Alastair, Wish I'd seen this post or understood your plans earlier.
Over Easter I rewrote the reporting I constructed for a hire firm. They wanted 20 reports based on different selection criteria and breakpoints. Having been down the road you are travelling I bit the bullet and created the first report as a template. Knowing that each variable in the report is evaluated for each row of data (and having quite a few in the report footer) I set all those variables in a block of code that is called immediately prior to the report printing. As yours are in the report header and footer you could set all the variables once in a block of code then call that block prior to printing the report and therefore only have to type the variables once. All you have to do then is position each variable on each of your reports. Obviously break footer and detail variables are a different story. At 16:22 09/04/02 +0100, you wrote: >I wanted to put 20 variables in the report header and another 20 in the >report footer of a dozen reports. Sounds easy and it is - for the first one. >Then it becomes an interminable bore: Warmest regards, Tom Grimshaw coy: Just For You Software tel: 612 9552 3311 fax: 612 9566 2164 mobile: 0414 675 903 post: PO Box 470 Glebe NSW 2037 Australia street: 3/66 Wentworth Park Rd Glebe NSW 2037 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.just4usoftware.com.au This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential to the intended recipient and may be privileged. If you have received this email inadvertently or you are not the intended recipient, you may not disseminate, distribute, copy or in any way rely on it. Further, you should notify the sender immediately and delete the email from your computer. Whilst we have taken precautions to alert us to the presence of computer viruses, we cannot guarantee that this email and any files transmitted with it are free from such viruses. ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
