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    Report prints too many copies

    I have a button of a form that calls up the printing of a report based on the record that is open in the form. I have the report with no report header/footer and no page header/footer. I have a detail head and footer. I have tried with no detail header/footer and just a page header/footer too. When I click on the "Print Invoice" button, I get the report I want but I get four copies of it. I get four copies in preview as well. All four are the same.

    What am I doing wrong?
    Jim Belanger

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    Re: Report prints too many copies

    What am I doing wrong?
    Hard to say without an example/sample database exhibiting the problem.

    Report based on a table or set? If a set, one to one or one to many?

    When you click on the "Print Invoice" button
    What is the filter for the report?
    There can be only one.

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      #3
      Re: Report prints too many copies

      Jim, I agree with Stan. More information is needed. For instance is the number of copies always 4, or might that number change depending upon the number of linked child table records ?

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        Re: Report prints too many copies

        I think you guys may have given me the direction I needed. Don't know why I didn't think of it. It is based on a set with two one to many links. I'm sure that will be the clue I need to solve this. The filter is to print a report for "selected record only". But, let me look into the one to many situation which I've run into before.
        Jim Belanger

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          #5
          Re: Report prints too many copies

          I copied my report to the table instead of the set and now only get one copy but I lose some of the information I was importing from the set. Still getting 4 to 9 copies of the report when doing it on the set. Must depend on how many child records there are but, I'm not using anything from those child records in the report. I only use info from the one to one child record. Maybe I need to design another set with only two tables for just this one report?
          Jim Belanger

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            Re: Report prints too many copies

            Jim, it sounds as though each copy is printing a single "composite" record. Suggest you review the Chapter on reports in the User's Guide, especially the section on reports from one to many sets. -- tom

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              Re: Report prints too many copies

              The section Tom mentioned.

              Designing Reports for Sets with One-to-Many Links

              It is common to think of the "selected" record as the current parent but that is not how it works for a set.





              In the example from the documentation, the "selected" parent record does indeed get "duplicated" for each child record.

              See Also Reverse Sets for Reporting Purposes
              There can be only one.

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                Re: Report prints too many copies

                I've read that section, over and over. It seems to me, perhaps in an earlier version, we had an option to print only parent records in a report but I can't find that now. In my case, the parent table is an INVOICE table. The one to one child table is a CUSTOMER table. Then, the CUSTOMER table has two tables linked in one to many, LOCKOUTS and RENTALS. I set up another SET with just the INVOICE table linked to CUSTOMER, one to one; without the two one to many tables and the report now works fine. It may not be the preferred solution but, it works for me.
                Jim Belanger

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                  Re: Report prints too many copies

                  You can print only parent records if you don't include fields from the many child tables and you create a group breaking on the parent table linking field and you place the desired fields in the group header or footer, specifying no detail section. You can also place one to many child fields in the group header/footer but you then have to specify first, last, min, max, total, count, etc. This is not an issue with character fields in a one to one child record like you have described.

                  Your reverse set sounds like it it doing what you want.
                  There can be only one.

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