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'Continued' in the header
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From
29/12/2014 23:36:45
Al Doman (Online)
M3 Enterprises Inc.
North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
 
 
To
29/12/2014 17:50:44
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows Server 2012
Network:
Windows 2008 Server
Database:
MS SQL Server
Application:
Web
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01612786
Message ID:
01612825
Views:
68
>>>>>Hi All:
>>>>>
>>>>>In the report header, I want to say 'Continued' if it goes for more than one page. My method of doing this is not working.
>>>>>
>>>>>This is what I'm doing:
>>>>>
>>>>>In the program that issues the REPORT command, I say:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>llReportCont = .f.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>In the Group Header I say:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>'Section' + SectionCode + iif(llReportCont, ' (Continued)', "")
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Then in the group header, the 'Upon Exit' I say:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>llReportCont = .t.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>And finally in the Report footer in the 'Upon Entry' (doesn't really matter which):
>>>>>
>>>>>llReportCont = .f.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>This is not working. What is wrong?
>>>>
>>>>A different, widely-used method is to use _PAGENO and _PAGETOTAL to display "Page XX of YY" on each page of a report. Details at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa977060%28v=vs.71%29.aspx
>>>
>>>Thanks, but -
>>>Sorry, what does that have to do with my specific problem?
>>
>>Using "Page XX of YY" is more informative than "Continued" and easier to implement.
>
>That's great, but the user (who is always right) insists on continued...

If the user has been informed that there's another way that's better and costs less of your time, and still insists on "Continued", then you have my condolences :-/
Regards. Al

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