[RBG7-L] - Re: Basic report questions

[David M. Blocker]

Karen   I didn't see any answers to your questions, so I'll offer what help; I can.   I find this whole area of reports still the most confusing piece of an otherwise terrrific package and upgrade from previous releases.   I can't answer questions 1 and 3, but can offer some help on 2.  Take a look at the report AllColumns in the sample RBTI Concomp database that comes with 7.x.    The key is not that the that the DBmemo must be in the region, but that all elements BELOW it that should shift down when the dbmemo is large should be in a region!  Each of those elements IN the region are marked as Keep Together so they stay with the region. Then the REGION is marked to ShiftRelativeTo the MEMO above it.   Razzak, can you jump in to indicate if I've got this right and to offer further clarification on the other questions for Karen?   David Blocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] 781-784-1919 Fax: 781-784-1860 Cell: 339-206-0261 ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: RBG7-L Mailing List Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 5:03 PM Subject: [RBG7-L] - Basic report questions Man, do I need a refresher course or what?  I haven't had to do any complicated reports (not that this seems complicated, but it's something easy to do in 6.5++ and I'm scratching my head over 7.1 and can't find any samples with what I'm trying to do). I'm trying to put together a report to show a client who's considering upgrading to 7.1 from 4.5.  Unfortunately this will be on the cheap, so I am doing a straight conversion -- no restructuring of database tables. Question 1:  Is it true that there is no way to word wrap a DBLabel?  Please tell me there's a way to do this.  This report has tons of columns and all the text values wrap into multiple lines.  I do not want to restructure a table to change nice static text columns into a whole bunch of note fields. Question 2:  If I have a DBMemo with other DBLabels located below it in the detail band, what's the procedure to keep the memo from flowing down into the field below it?  Do I have to enclose every DBMemo field within a region? Question 3:  It says that "stretch" will be ignored if the band is "static".  I had "static", but it refused to let me choose "dynamic".  I would click it and it goes back to "static" Feeling stupid today! Karen