I once did the same thing and found the same thing happening. Don't remember what it was now, but when I did a painstaking comparison of my generated FRX's to those layed out visually, I found differences. Once I had pounded out every difference, it stopped happening.

>I'm trying to create FRX files programmatically, populating FRXes with fields from some old reports that are converted from another database.
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>That works good in many cases.
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>However, in some others, it seems that fields that are in the FRX are just "invisible", for example, the FRX generated has 90 records, then I manually MODIFY REPORT that FRX, notice that many of the fields are missing and after saving it, 80 fields disappear and only 10 are left.
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>I suspect that some of these fields may be positioned outside their header bands or detail bands or whatever.
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>Is there some semi-comprehensive documentation anywhere on the web about how the FRX files work?
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>I'm mainly interested in the positioning of fields relative to the different report bands.
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>Thanks in advance for any advice!
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>Hermann Strijewski,
>Clearwater, FL