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Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 5:00 PM
Subject: [RBG7-L] - Re: Label
dynamically?
Armin,
You can accomplish some level of this with all the new PROPERTY
commands.
For instance, it would be very easy to allow a user to select what fields
would appear on a label/report using the Visible property command. Other
items such as font size etc. could also be used. You could make a form
that asks what fields to include, fonts, etc. and then set values in a table
accordingly. When the label is ran, run a simple "set the PROPERTIES"
routine using the values in the table. If you assign the values in the
table a USER ID as well, you could have one label be customized by any number
of individual users! (Rbase is great!) (I have used this same method to
allow users to "personalize" forms. Such as display colors etc.)
There are some property controls that I am not familiar with such as
HEIGHT, ClientWidth, etc. that could possibly allow some changes of location,
although I have not used these.
This method can give you very precise control over what the user can change
and you have no concerns about data access etc. through the designer.
However it would not be a complete graphical "drag and drop" type
system. For that, you would have to give them access to the designer I
am afraid.
Many possibilities!
-Bob
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Hi everybody
Again and again I'm asked by users of my
applications how they could change existing LABELS.
> ' This field should be a little bigger,
that text could have another color and those fields have to be at another
place. And finally this field is not used '.
Actually I make the desired changes in my
office and send an update of the label to the user.
Does anybody know a way so the user could make
uncritical changes himself?
I say 'uncritical' that means, not to design a
label completely new.
Is there a possibility of such a
minidesigner?
Best Regards
Armin
