Re: Forms 4.5 / Developer 2000 Reports Printing question

From: Peter Ball <peterball_at_geocities.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 14:54:36 +0000
Message-ID: <369E052C.6117_at_geocities.com>


Adam Flinton wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> Quick Question regarding Forms 4.5 Reports/Developer2000
>
> What we need to be able to do is to produce 2 reports (A Delivery Note & a
> Sanitization Note) where customers are having deliveries every week / 2
> weeks and Sanitizations every 3 months. i.e Most of the time a customer will
> get a delivery note, Sometimes they may just get a Sanitization Note &
> sometimes they will get both.
>
> These Notes are given to the truck drivers & they would like them to be in
> order of Customer. i.e If the customer has both Notes then it should be
> delivery Note followed by Sanitization Note rather than at the moment where
> both sets of notes are printed as separate runs & are then manually put
> together by the Driver / Office staff as mistakes are costly (e.g. If a Sani
> Note is attached to the wrong customer then a driver may have to go back to
> the correct customer to do a Sanitization of the Equipment).
>
> So what we need to do is to produce a "Document Set" with all the Delivery
> Notes & Sani Notes interleaved into one Set ordered by Customer which can
> then be sent of to the printer as one job. The reason for this is that the
> Office Staff require a "Print Preview" to check that everything looks OK &
> is set out right etc. & want to be able to turn from page to page & then
> when they reckon all is OK they can hit print.
>
> Any thoughts welcome
>
> Adam
Sounds like you need to make one report with page one the sani report and page two the delivery note, each surrounded by a frame with a format trigger to produce / repress each type as the logic dictates. Peter Received on Thu Jan 14 1999 - 15:54:36 CET

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