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Page Breaks Within A Band?
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30/04/1998 17:19:38
 
 
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30/04/1998 16:57:45
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00096120
Message ID:
00096142
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11
>>>>Is it possible to print two pages within a band?
>>>>
>>>>advTHANKSance
>>>>
>>>> ...kt
>>>
>>>Do you have a problem that band is too big, bigger than page? There is >workaround here too.
>>
>>I shudda known. Lay it on me Ed! The situation is that I have
>>a report (same report) that when I get a break on the primary key
>>(provider id), I need to print two separate pages -- a letter of
>>intoduction (mostly prepared text, some data from my table) and
>>an invoice.
>>
>>What say U?
>>
>> ...kt
>
>The genric way to print the same record on two pages is following:
>1. Inflate your data making two record from each one.
>Select recno() as Recno, 1 as Lstorder, * From Table1 Order by 1,2 ;
> Union Select recno() as Recno, 2 as Lstorder, * From Table1
>2. Group your report form by Recno,Lstorder providing 'Start Each Group on a New Page'.
>3. All detail band fields should use 'Print When' clause evaluated by Lstorder, i.e. some fields will be printed for Lstorder=1 and others for Lstorder=2

So then in the band I will pro'ly have fields displaying on
top of each other, but when I actually print(preview) only one
will print, correct?

What about the fact that the band sizes will be different? Won't this
throw of any lines bound to the bottom of the band?

...kt
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