>>>>>I need to be able to print a report and save a copy of the report so that I can either view/print the report again exactly as it was printed originally. All thoughts/ideas are welcome.
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>>>>We save the .frx/t in a .zip (memo field) along with the data that was used to print the report. Then to reprint, we unzip it and REPORT FORM on it.
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>>>>This is prefaced by the fact that we create a separate work area to do all of our report work in.
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>>>>Wayne
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>>>Just curious, did you ever investigated trying to save an image of the report in a memo field? Or anything like that?
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>>No, we just save our working directory - along with the report. It's pretty simple that way. We also have the data to refer to if there is any question about the result set.
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>>Wayne
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>Hi Wayne,
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>I've been investigating our options, and so far your solution seems to be the cleanest for us.
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>I'm curious, how are you storing the data that generated the report? Do you print batches of reports?

Each report has it's own work space... so what we do is zip up the directory into one file and save that file to the memo field of the table. Then to reprint the report, we just unzip the contents to a directory and REPORT FORM...


Wayne