I think (now know) you are correct. Perhaps the years had provided me with a "senior moment"... I just took a few moments to bring up the old HC stack set I had been referring to and found that I had linked my stacks hierarchically (manually, of course) so that one card's fields (a series of columns with "header" info above) in the "parent" stack was populated (via HyperTalk) from the matching -set- of cards in the "child" stack. I had been doing my own "many-to-one" lookups and filling in the fields' contents. Once that was done, HC's Report Generator was called with a saved report format. It was, indeed, a columnar report but I made it columnar through manual means. I was doing Business Basic DB work at that time and was used to manual lookups. While what I was doing was slow in HC under 7.6.1 on an '030, it absolutely screams under 9.2.2 on an 867/G4.
So I grovel at the feet of the RunRev mavens but still long for a real tabular report methodology in Rev. If anyone else has suggestions for me, I will gratefully accept them.
Isn't there a sample stack set somewhere that shows how the report object is to be used? How about printing a card with parallel columns of multi-line fields whose data extends beyond what can be seen with a scroll of 0? I think Jeanne had some comments on this but, again, is there an example stack somewhere that I can dissect?
Thanks, Barry
On Saturday, Jun 14, 2003, at 15:32 America/Denver, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Did HC's report tool do columnar reports?--------------------------------------------------------
I'd opened it and poked around prior to posting, but could only find capabilities similar to Rev's Report Builder.
If so, it would be useful to review that interface for ideas on building a
replacement, though it's hard to imagine it could compare to the more
comprehensive options of specialized third-party tools like Reports Data
Pro, which might make a better model to follow.
_______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
