I use to do the NSF and my issue was the 600 plus long required data fields and this was done in pre-win. Like dos and RBase 3. So I used a batch copy a.txt + b.txt + c.txt done.txt. Of course I had a basic command for string manulaption. Old school but fast ------Original Message------ From: Tom Frederick Sender: [email protected] To: RBASE-L Mailing List ReplyTo: [email protected] Subject: [RBASE-L] - Combining/merging reports Sent: Jan 16, 2009 10:19 PM
I need to develop a large report for Medicaid mental health billing purposes that will easily have over 700 separate data fields in it. The current paper version is 22 pages The fields include simple check boxes, text, long notes and many variables. Data will come from 15 different tables and there happens to be 16 sections to the existing report. The sections will never change, but the amount of data for each section can change significantly for each person being tracked. I use sub reports and regions regularly to put out reports of 4-6 pages. The big report can easily be broken into smaller sections. Smaller sections would be great to control what goes in them and find problems. My question is : how do you save these smaller sections while maintaining their format and then combine them into one large, coordinated report? Or is there a better way? Looking through the Print documents seems to put everything into files that are outside the database. Is there a way to save a formatted report section in a table row, add the other report sections to that row the same way, then combine all the sections like a simple 16 item report, and then off to the printer? Of course everything has to eventually work like lightening from a print report button. This topic seems familiar from a R:Base meeting,but I clearly did not understand the concept at the time. It's only kinda clear now. Thanks Tom Frederick Jacksonville, Illinois Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
