>>Hi Hilmar,
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>>I've 'solved' it by printing an alternate report with a single blank record when there is no input.
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>>Still a surprise that no records = no report.
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>Report Form is one of those commands which change _tally, i.e. it's record oriented. No record, nothing to do, does nothing. This hasn't changed since dBase II.

As has been made clear to me < s >. Shows how much I've used the old report designer during my time with FP/VFP!

Nevertheless, printing nothing just because there are no records is a strange conclusion to me. After all, the report does have information in it, even if it's only headers/footers with date/page count. It's been generally accepted through all my mainframe days that an "empty" report is still a valid report and does communicate the fact that it was indeed run and did indeed find nothing useful to report.

Wish list #314 (relatively aged) already asks for this
so there is hope that it will be in the redesigned and vastly improved designer in VFP 9.

cheers