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Hacking a report - where are pages defined?
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07/11/2005 12:46:47
Mike Yearwood
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01066071
Message ID:
01066077
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16
Hiya Bob!

The VFP report is a single page layout used to format a set of records. You may have better luck using a multiple page word document, and either a mail-merge or programmatically search+replace via word automation. I think Word has much more layout power than VFP's report writer.

>I've got an incredibly complicated report that someone designed several years ago. It replicates a government form and has to have the exact same layout. The form now has to be changed. Doing this manually in the form designer will be a terrible task, and I'm planning on hacking it programatically. I've reverse engineered it into a DBF which will allow me to manipulate that to bulk move groups of fields, and recreate the form.
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>The form has multiple pages, and I can't figure out how an .FRX controls pages.
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>I had guessed it was the pagebreak field, but that's only set on one record with an hpos/vpos of 0/0
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>It looks like it might just treat three pages as one continous page, since the vpos of fields goes up to 202,916. Is that a normal way to do things?
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