I had an unpleasant experience creating my first A11 report. I'm very concerned and would like to know if any of you have experienced what I did.
I used the Genii accessed from Control Panel "Reports". I took the middle option "Start from a blank free-form report".
After completing a lengthy group header I clicked "Preview" and the report was blank. I saved what I had and attempted to go back into Design Mode and work on my problem. Design mode would not let me access my Report. Instead, I was greeted with the dialogue for the "Quick Report Genii". I knew instantly my report was a "goner".
I started it over and only did half the work I did the first time and the same thing happened.
I then started over again and tried to do something different in case I was unwittingly triggering a bug. My Report is all based on a Group Header and Footer so the first thing I did was remove the Report Header and Footer. I cautiously entered my Group Header a few objects at a time, then Previewing, then Saving and quitting, then re-editing. This time it worked. I continued working on my header until it was fully completed, and the Report is still OK.
I'm extremely nervous at this point that as I'm near finishing this Report and have around 6-8 hours invested in it the Report will fail. I'll be in a bad place if that should happen.
Can any of you relate to my experience? Misery loves company as we all know and I'd like to feel less alone with this problem. More constructively, when something like this happens is there anything we can do to salvage our work?
I should mention that Al Buchholz wrote to me with helpful information and suggested something I didn't know about. He explained that I can right-click my report in Control Panel and there's a link at the bottom that allows me to restore any previous saves of this report. I should tell you that none of them worked for me. There were well over a dozen.
I'm very eager to receive your feedback on what happened. Until this I've been making very good progress converting my 16bit A1 application to A11, in large measure because of the terrific support I've received here in your Forums.
Thanks once more ... Sam Gerber
I used the Genii accessed from Control Panel "Reports". I took the middle option "Start from a blank free-form report".
After completing a lengthy group header I clicked "Preview" and the report was blank. I saved what I had and attempted to go back into Design Mode and work on my problem. Design mode would not let me access my Report. Instead, I was greeted with the dialogue for the "Quick Report Genii". I knew instantly my report was a "goner".
I started it over and only did half the work I did the first time and the same thing happened.
I then started over again and tried to do something different in case I was unwittingly triggering a bug. My Report is all based on a Group Header and Footer so the first thing I did was remove the Report Header and Footer. I cautiously entered my Group Header a few objects at a time, then Previewing, then Saving and quitting, then re-editing. This time it worked. I continued working on my header until it was fully completed, and the Report is still OK.
I'm extremely nervous at this point that as I'm near finishing this Report and have around 6-8 hours invested in it the Report will fail. I'll be in a bad place if that should happen.
Can any of you relate to my experience? Misery loves company as we all know and I'd like to feel less alone with this problem. More constructively, when something like this happens is there anything we can do to salvage our work?
I should mention that Al Buchholz wrote to me with helpful information and suggested something I didn't know about. He explained that I can right-click my report in Control Panel and there's a link at the bottom that allows me to restore any previous saves of this report. I should tell you that none of them worked for me. There were well over a dozen.
I'm very eager to receive your feedback on what happened. Until this I've been making very good progress converting my 16bit A1 application to A11, in large measure because of the terrific support I've received here in your Forums.
Thanks once more ... Sam Gerber
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