Print Form
- I create a master form, which looks like a print selection form.
- Duplicate, it for each part I need to print (header, break, footer,
detail etc),
- set the break lines according to the section being printed (Print
Form prints everything between header line and detail line)
- I name the sections Form_Name_h, Form_Name_d1, Form_Name_d2,
Form_Name_f etc.
- each Print_Form_ method (below) will use the appropriate form
section. The various Print_form_ methods (below) will collect what
ever related record data, fill variables, do calculations, summations,
etc
your code will look something like this (entirely fake code:
For (Primary Records to print)
Repeat // print at least one page for each primary record (not
required to be done this way)
$Pixels_Printed:=$Pixels_Printed + Print_Form_header
$Pixels_Printed:=$Pixels_Printed + Print_Form_subheader // if there
is one
// print the detail line(s) for this record
While ($Max_Report_Body_Pixels > $Pixels_Printed) &
(Not($All_Details_Printed))
// run out of room, print footer, print new page headers
if ($Max_Report_Body_Pixels < $Pixels_Printed)
Print footer
Page Break
$Pixels_Printed:=$Pixels_Printed + Print_Form_header
$Pixels_Printed:=$Pixels_Printed + Print_Form_subheader // if
there is one
end if
$Pixels_Printed:=Pixels_Printed + Print_Form_Detail
end while
// fill page to print footer at bottom of page
for ($Max_Pixels_to_Print - ($Pixels_Printed + $Footer_size))
Print_One_Pixel_Blank_Form
end for
Print_Footer // print footer, end of report
until ($All_Details_Printed)
next record([primary_table])
end for
hope this helps
Chip
On Wed, 2 May 2018 17:20:34 -0700, Noah via 4D_Tech wrote:
> Good afternoon!
> I need to develop a print report that I was hoping would be a as simple as
> PRINT SELECTION, however what needs to be printed is not in a single table
> (there are at least two tables to get the information from).
>
> The tables are called [Projects] and [Approvals]
>
> One project can have many approvals and each approval is tied to an
> account/fund (which is a non-unique attribute of the project). The projects
> have a unique key but that key is not present in the approvals table. The
> approvals records can be used to look up the associated project based on
> certain query-able fields (project name and status).
>
> I was thinking that this might be accomplished with multiple breaks as
> shown in the documentation:
> http://doc.4d.com/4Dv15/4D/15.6/An-example-report.300-3836729.en.html
>
> However, I don't have a ton of experience with list forms (aside from the
> last 3 days of investigations). I have gone through much of the
> documentation and experimenting with form creation, but have not been able
> to come up with a solution that I am happy with.
>
> It would be nice to develop a print form with the project information at
> the top of the page and the related approval records listed below (on as
> many pages as needed).
>
> Something like that is shown in this video but they use the form wizard to
> achieve this:
> http://doc.4d.com/4Dv16/4D/16/Printing-forms.200-3246861.en.html
>
> Can anyone provide some guidance on how I might be able to solve this
> problem?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
> Noah
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