Thanks Malcom Tomorrow I plan to get to the bottom of this (at least know exactly when and what is changing...) Just to point out the margin is not being kept the same as the object in the orginal system AOT. If I export or import with a client PC that has a printer then the margin is going to end up getting set as a different value in the AOT object compared to the original AOT object. I feel the margin should not change because even if I setup a margin that is too small for the printer attached to the client doing the export/import this does not mean this will be the printer the user runs the actual report on and that is the exact problem I have whereby the user tested printing the report with no problem in a test system and then the customer exported and imported into the live and then all of a sudden the report no longer prints correct and of course the customer gets confused and frustrated because the only thing done is export and import etc Thanks James _____
From: Axapta-Knowledge-Village@yahoogroups.com [mailto:axapta-knowledge-vill...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Malcolm Burtt Sent: 17 March 2009 18:03 To: Axapta-Knowledge-Village@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [Axapta-Knowledge-Village] Damn TopMargin property has a mind of its own!!! Hi James My guess is that AX is picking up the limits of the printable area that your printer supports and enforcing them in your design so that your report doesn't try and render data into a space that your printer can't actually print. Pretty much all printers have some degree of unprintable space on the page but its larger on some than on others. The fact that AX pulls this setting into the design in such a way that, when exported and imported into a system where the default printer has a smaller unprintable area, the margin from your printer is transferred just suggests to me that the assumption is that the report layout worked with that margin and that you'd want to keep that to ensure that the report matched what you saw on the original system. Something of a rambling answer, I know, but hopefully I got the point across. J Regards Malcolm Burtt Touchstone Group People - Partnership - Solutions From: Axapta-Knowledge-Village@yahoogroups.com [mailto:axapta-knowledge-vill...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of James Flavell Sent: 16 March 2009 10:18 To: Axapta-Knowledge-Village@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Axapta-Knowledge-Village] Damn TopMargin property has a mind of its own!!! Hi everyone Just spent most of the day with a strange problem regarding the top margin property on a design section of a report. The situation is: Client PC has no windows printers installed Using this client set the top margin to 4.2mm in an AX4.0 SP2 report Install a pritner on this client PC Log back into AX and when look at the property it is now 6.27mm and cannot be changed to be less (this change happens without any edit of the report object!!!) I am guessing that somehow AX tries to be smart and says the minimum top margin is 6.27mm Is this some kind of hard coded size? Or does AX AOT reports somehow check teh default windows printer?!!! Look forward to hearing from you Thanks James
