1. I note that reports from the VFP report designer flash the "report form" on the screen, before showing the report with data in it. Is there any way to surpress this behavior?


Can you describe this a little further? This is from the Designer, and you're seeing report content in _SCREEN, or what? Is SET("REPORTB") 80 or 90?


2. I've been playing with the new "multiple detail band" feature. However, it seems to require that the parent and child tables be all hooked up with SET RELATION, etc. What I usually do is prepare cursors for my reports and just report against the cursor....is there any way using multiple detail bands to simply say:
Print all records in cursor #1 (usually a single record...the header for the report or the page...)

then print all records in cursor #2
then print all records in cursor #3


Yes, you can do this. There are at least two good ways. Both rely on the fact that you can set one or more target alias values to match the driving alias, not necessarily the child of a relation. See the helpfile topic: "Working with Related Tables using Multiple Detail Bands in Reports".

If you have questions, you can e-mail me; I don't check UT very often.

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