Thanks Jim,

Your overall philosophy makes so much sense. I eliminates most of the report writer hassels I have been struggling with.

In fact I like your approach so much, I am going to order your book to learn what other good ideas you have.


>Richard,
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>I create a form that drives the report. In the form I CREATE CURSOR for the report that has all of the data required for the report in it (already processed). I write code to process the data and create records in the cursor, then I run the report. The report does nothing with the data as it is already processed.
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>I hate trying to get a report to behave in processing data. Reports are not for processing they are for formatting the printed output. Use the data management language to process the data and let the report format the printed page.