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Re: Multi-Page Summary Reports

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In article <1m1zjly.gn44jwll7wfgN%csampson@inetworld.net>, Charles H.
Sampson <csampson@inetworld.net> wrote:
> 
> I've become pretty adept at developing what I call "summary reports".
> These typically are only one page long (for my small personal databases)
> and consist of a header, body, and trailing grand summary. The body
> consists of a number of lines with informaton about some aspect of the
> database. (Think customer name and outstaning balance.) The grand
> summary contains bits of information about the database (e.g.,
> outstanding balances less than 30 days old, 60 days old, etc.)
> 
> Now I want to do something similar except that it's a multi-page report,
> each page organized as described above. I've figured out a way to do
> what I want for my one database, but it's ad hoc and pretty clumsy. Does
> anyody know a neat way of doing this?
> 
> A related question: Is there a way to force a new page in a report. If
> it's in the Pogue Press book it's well-hidden.

In some ways the reports are probably FileMaker's weakest part and can
be difficult and cumbersome to get what you want (and thanks to a buggy
Preview Mode, it can be impossible to do something like an index /
table of contents).

By stretching the various Layout Parts you can make a report as long as
you need it to be. In the Body Part you will eventually get an
indicator of where a page boundary supposedly occurs, but it's only
really a vague guess at best since it can be affected at the print /
Preview stage by things like Sliding field heights or records taking up
differing amounts of space.

You can only specifically force a page break at Part boundaries using
the Part options to have a page break "after every X occurrences", for
example.

Helpful Harry   :o)

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Multi-Page Summary Reports csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2015-03-28 08:45 -0700
  Re: Multi-Page Summary Reports Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2015-03-29 10:15 +1200
    Re: Multi-Page Summary Reports csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2015-03-29 15:55 -0700
      Re: Multi-Page Summary Reports ursus <ursus.kirk@gmail.com> - 2015-03-30 01:20 +0200

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