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Par2: Chaining reports
2012-04-22 -- Alan de Wet
 
Once again the replies are suggesting 3rd party templates (at a cost no 
doubt) which may not be necessary.

Try the following to have the additional reports printed from within the 
main report:

Hilite the main report in the Application Tree, click the Calls button and 
select all 3 of the reports.

If they are to be printed after the main report, in the 
ThisWindow.AskPreview Procedure of the main report in the embed point 6300 
place embedded code to call the reports which are to be printed eg:

IF AdditionalReport1 = 'Yes'
  PrintAdditionalReport1
END
IF AdditionalReport2 = 'Yes'
  PrintAdditionalReport2
END
IF AdditionalReport3 = 'Yes'
  PrintAdditionalReport3
END

If they are to be printed before the main report place the same code in the 
embed point after opening the window of the main report.

I do this a lot especially where the main report creates 1 or more queues or 
other global variables or even new temporary data files which are used in 
the additional reports to print a summary of the main report.

Attached is a sample txt file of the embed code to print additional reports 
after the main report.



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