VFP 9 - Chain reports?

Can someone give me an idea as to what this really means?

Maybe I should just state what it is that I'm trying to do, and see if VFP 9
will allow me to do it.

I have several reports that make up a "final" report that we send to our
customers. I've purchased FRX2ANY for VFP, and right now I run each report
individually, outputting each to a separate PDF file. I then append each
one where needed using Acrobat.

Will the report "chaining" allow me to set it up so all reports "run", then
are output to a PDF? Basically turning what now can be as many as 30
individual runs, into one?

Thanks!
Shawn

MichelRoy
Mon Dec 05 09:33:02 CST 2005

run your reports one after another using NOPAGEEJECT after each but the last
report. It will combine into one large report

use NORESET if you want the page numbers to keep going up instead of
resetting to 1


"43fan" wrote:

> Can someone give me an idea as to what this really means?
>
> Maybe I should just state what it is that I'm trying to do, and see if VFP 9
> will allow me to do it.
>
> I have several reports that make up a "final" report that we send to our
> customers. I've purchased FRX2ANY for VFP, and right now I run each report
> individually, outputting each to a separate PDF file. I then append each
> one where needed using Acrobat.
>
> Will the report "chaining" allow me to set it up so all reports "run", then
> are output to a PDF? Basically turning what now can be as many as 30
> individual runs, into one?
>
> Thanks!
> Shawn
>
>
>

43fan
Mon Dec 05 10:08:08 CST 2005

Michel,

Thanks. Are you meaning I can do this with VFP 8 as well? I'm not sure how
the coding would work for using frx2any, as it requires a report name for
the output(.frx file). Any clues?

Thanks again!
Shawn

"Michel Roy" <MichelRoy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C36B322F-3F05-447F-98D0-35636FFAE0C4@microsoft.com...
> run your reports one after another using NOPAGEEJECT after each but the
last
> report. It will combine into one large report
>
> use NORESET if you want the page numbers to keep going up instead of
> resetting to 1
>
>
> "43fan" wrote:
>
> > Can someone give me an idea as to what this really means?
> >
> > Maybe I should just state what it is that I'm trying to do, and see if
VFP 9
> > will allow me to do it.
> >
> > I have several reports that make up a "final" report that we send to our
> > customers. I've purchased FRX2ANY for VFP, and right now I run each
report
> > individually, outputting each to a separate PDF file. I then append
each
> > one where needed using Acrobat.
> >
> > Will the report "chaining" allow me to set it up so all reports "run",
then
> > are output to a PDF? Basically turning what now can be as many as 30
> > individual runs, into one?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Shawn
> >
> >
> >

MichelRoy
Mon Dec 05 12:42:02 CST 2005

it works in vfp8 as well

1st report:

report form (myreport1) to print prompt nopageeject
...
2nd report

report form (report2) to print nopageeject noreset

3rd.....

last report
report form (lastreport) to print





"43fan" wrote:

> Michel,
>
> Thanks. Are you meaning I can do this with VFP 8 as well? I'm not sure how
> the coding would work for using frx2any, as it requires a report name for
> the output(.frx file). Any clues?
>
> Thanks again!
> Shawn
>
> "Michel Roy" <MichelRoy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C36B322F-3F05-447F-98D0-35636FFAE0C4@microsoft.com...
> > run your reports one after another using NOPAGEEJECT after each but the
> last
> > report. It will combine into one large report
> >
> > use NORESET if you want the page numbers to keep going up instead of
> > resetting to 1
> >
> >
> > "43fan" wrote:
> >
> > > Can someone give me an idea as to what this really means?
> > >
> > > Maybe I should just state what it is that I'm trying to do, and see if
> VFP 9
> > > will allow me to do it.
> > >
> > > I have several reports that make up a "final" report that we send to our
> > > customers. I've purchased FRX2ANY for VFP, and right now I run each
> report
> > > individually, outputting each to a separate PDF file. I then append
> each
> > > one where needed using Acrobat.
> > >
> > > Will the report "chaining" allow me to set it up so all reports "run",
> then
> > > are output to a PDF? Basically turning what now can be as many as 30
> > > individual runs, into one?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Shawn
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
>
>