Patti,
What you describe certainly should work. Are you certain the fields are wide enough to display your dates? Do you see the dates when you preview the report in the Designer? Another approach is to build a variable outside the report, such as vtitle, that contains your title line including the dates. Then place the variable vtitle on the report and make it very wide, centered in the band and center the text in the object. Emmitt Dove Manager, DairyPak Business Systems Evergreen Packaging, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (203) 643-8022 From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of patti jakusz Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 2:47 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - problems with variables on a report Hi, In a command file, I prompt users to type in the beginning and ending dates for the report they want to print. Then I use those same variables in the heading of the report, plotting them as variable labels. I am sure that the variables are defined before I saved the report design. I removed the check in front of "Clear variables after printing." There are several different reports that are run (and I did the steps listed above to allof them), and in between, I showed my variables on the screen and the beginning and ending dates were still defined correctly. But they won't print on the report. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Any ideas? Thanks, Patti _____ The other season of giving begins 6/24/08. Check out the i'm Talkathon. Check it out! <http://www.imtalkathon.com?source=TXT_EML_WLH_SeasonOfGiving>
