Re: Passing Forms 4.5 data to Reports 2.5 for printing

From: A. Jorge Florindo <ajf.63_at_mail.telepac.pt>
Date: 1997/05/09
Message-ID: <33725330.2BA3_at_mail.telepac.pt>#1/1


Laura Larry Van Deusen wrote:
>
> I have a screen full of information from Forms 4.5. I want to pass the
> data to Reports to print (or mail) it.
> I use System.Last_Query to grab the forms query, create a record group
> from the query, create a parameter list and add the record group name to
> it and use Run_Product and pass the parameter list. This works fine. I
> see my data in Reports just like I want it.
> My problem is that when I monitor the database, I can see Reports
> repeating the database fetch for the query. I can't afford a second
> database hit. I figure if I already fetched the rows once in forms,
> reports ought to be able to access them for print, display, etc. How do
> I do this?
> Thanks,
> Laura Van Deusen
> Laura_at_jcc.com

Hi Laura,

A little question:

  What type of parameter(s) are you using in the third argument, TEXT_PARAMETER or DATA_PARAMETER ?

  Because if you are using DATA_PARAMETER, the database fetch do not make any sense.   

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I hope this help
Regards
Jorge
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