Putting More Child Records On Report Detail?

I have a report that has a parent record (grouped) that prints in the
group header and the child records print in the detail. Easy enough.

There is only two fields per child record. I would like to print 4 or
5 child records per detail line to get rid of all the wasted space and
to save paper. Is there and easy way to do this in foxpro. I know I
could do it in a complicated way with arrays and such but I am looking
for an easy way if there is one. There can be hundreds of child
records sometimes.

I wish there was a detail line setting that says 'wrap'/'unwrap' the
detail line printing.

Thanks, Rick

John
Wed Sep 17 12:48:54 CDT 2003

Hey Chester,

You write a function that builds a string and returns it. Then set that
string as the report field's expression.

Say you've got:
CREATE CURSOR curContact ( OrgID I, ContactID C (5), ContactName C (20) )
INSERT INTO curContact (OrgID, ContactID, ContactName ) VALUES ( 1, "JCS",
"Joe Schimko" )
INSERT INTO curContact (OrgID, ContactID, ContactName ) VALUES ( 1, "TCS",
"Tom Schimko" )
INSERT INTO curContact (OrgID, ContactID, ContactName ) VALUES ( 1, "ECS",
"Erin Schimko" )
INSERT INTO curContact (OrgID, ContactID, ContactName ) VALUES ( 1, "TCS",
"Tracy Schimko" )
INSERT INTO curContact (OrgID, ContactID, ContactName ) VALUES ( 1, "RCS",
"Russ Schimko" )
INSERT INTO curContact (OrgID, ContactID, ContactName ) VALUES ( 1, "BCS",
"Betty Schimko" )
INSERT INTO curContact (OrgID, ContactID, ContactName ) VALUES ( 1, "JJJ",
"Jimmy Jones" )
INSERT INTO curContact (OrgID, ContactID, ContactName ) VALUES ( 1, "NJJ",
"Nancy Jones" )
INSERT INTO curContact (OrgID, ContactID, ContactName ) VALUES ( 1, "AJJ",
"Adam Jones" )
INSERT INTO curContact (OrgID, ContactID, ContactName ) VALUES ( 1, "VJJ",
"Veronica Jones" )


FUNCTION ListContacts
LPARAMETERS nContacts

ReturnVal = ALLTRIM( ContactName ) + " (" + ALLTRIM( ContactID ) + ")"
FOR ContactCntr = 2 TO nContacts
SKIP
IF EOF()
EXIT
ENDIF
ReturnVal = ReturnVal + ", " + ALLTRIM( ContactName ) + " (" +
ALLTRIM( ContactID ) + ")"
ENDFOR
RETURN ReturnVal

HTH,

John

"Chester Deja" <dejaemail@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:7de036b7.0309170911.369c0fa7@posting.google.com...
> I have a report that has a parent record (grouped) that prints in the
> group header and the child records print in the detail. Easy enough.
>
> There is only two fields per child record. I would like to print 4 or
> 5 child records per detail line to get rid of all the wasted space and
> to save paper. Is there and easy way to do this in foxpro. I know I
> could do it in a complicated way with arrays and such but I am looking
> for an easy way if there is one. There can be hundreds of child
> records sometimes.
>
> I wish there was a detail line setting that says 'wrap'/'unwrap' the
> detail line printing.
>
> Thanks, Rick

Leemi
Wed Sep 17 16:50:48 CDT 2003

Hi Rick:

To create a multi child report in VFP Report Writer, take a look at:

http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~MultiChildFoxProReports~VFP

and see Cathy Pountney's book "The Visual FoxPro Report Writer: Pushing it
to the Limit and Beyond." This book has a technique you can use to
simulate multiple detail bands in the VFP Report Writer.

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

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> I have a report that has a parent record (grouped) that prints in the
> group header and the child records print in the detail. Easy enough.
>
> There is only two fields per child record. I would like to print 4 or
> 5 child records per detail line to get rid of all the wasted space and
> to save paper. Is there and easy way to do this in foxpro. I know I
> could do it in a complicated way with arrays and such but I am looking
> for an easy way if there is one. There can be hundreds of child
> records sometimes.
>
> I wish there was a detail line setting that says 'wrap'/'unwrap' the
> detail line printing.
>
> Thanks, Rick

Fred
Wed Sep 17 20:16:36 CDT 2003

You could define a multi-column report. That would allow you to have as
many child "rows" as you can fit across the page.

Fred
Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP

"Chester Deja" <dejaemail@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:7de036b7.0309170911.369c0fa7@posting.google.com...
> I have a report that has a parent record (grouped) that prints in the
> group header and the child records print in the detail. Easy enough.
>
> There is only two fields per child record. I would like to print 4 or
> 5 child records per detail line to get rid of all the wasted space and
> to save paper. Is there and easy way to do this in foxpro. I know I
> could do it in a complicated way with arrays and such but I am looking
> for an easy way if there is one. There can be hundreds of child
> records sometimes.
>
> I wish there was a detail line setting that says 'wrap'/'unwrap' the
> detail line printing.
>
> Thanks, Rick

dejaemail
Thu Sep 18 08:55:52 CDT 2003

Thanks Fred.

I tried your suggestion first and it is working nicely - I put the
header information into the page header since I always want that info
at the top of the page.

Now I have to figure out how to suppress some of this header
information on the second, third, fourth pages...if the header (group)
is the same as the previous page. For example I have address fields
that I do not want to print in the header of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th...
pages - just the name I want printed. I only want all the information
on the first page.

I probably will do some kind of record counter on the detail(child)
records - resetting it at the group break and 'IIF(child_count >
124,no print.., print...)' print the address fields in the page header
for all them fields I don't want to print on the next pages.

Thanks for all the great suggestions here. They really helped.

Rick


"Fred Taylor" <ftaylor@mvps.org> wrote in message news:<Ogt1BKYfDHA.460@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>...
> You could define a multi-column report. That would allow you to have as
> many child "rows" as you can fit across the page.
>
> Fred
> Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP
>