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    #1

    Reports/Letters/and etc

    I strongly suggest Reports/Letters and so forth not be embedded.

    It is hard to send 1 report to 1 customer and another to another and then update several customers without someone getting shorted. Sending all reports/Letters is out of the question as there would be over 500 of these Reports/Letters to contend with.

    Am I alone in My needs??

    Dave Mason
    Dave Mason
    [email protected]
    Skype is dave.mason46
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    #2
    RE: Reports/Letters/and etc

    You'll get more discussion of this if you post to the appropriate forum.

    As for sending to a subset of customers, why can't you mark the customer(s) and send to marked records?

    Bill
    Bill Hanigsberg

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      #3
      RE: Reports/Letters/and etc

      I believe this is the correct forum for suggetions, however it was posted 2 times.

      You also misunderstood the gist of the reasons

      Thanks.
      Dave
      Dave Mason
      [email protected]
      Skype is dave.mason46

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        #4
        RE: Reports/Letters/and etc

        "You also misunderstood the gist of the reasons "

        Ok, then explain...or don't.
        Bill Hanigsberg

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          #5
          RE: Reports/Letters/and etc

          Sorry, Didn't mean to be short. I am fighting to be able to use alpha instead of another language for over 2000 car dealers.

          I sell Reports ( most only contain 1 record ) to them after I sell the program. I get between 25 and 100 each. they all have different needs in reports to print. State title forms that are filled in for instance ( there are 50 of those ) do not need to be on each Dealers Program, only the one for that state. I some times have 2 versions printing in one state of that one.

          I wild guessed i had over 500 reports to sell, actually I have over 4000 reports currently in Crystal reports. Can you imagine sending every dealer over 5000 reports??

          I would be happy to start rewriting in alpha if it were possible to economically send these reports to the dealers as needed.

          I'll keep on trying to get alpha to make it so it can handle those kinds of jobs.

          Thanks Dave
          Dave Mason
          [email protected]
          Skype is dave.mason46

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            #6
            RE: Reports/Letters/and etc

            Oh, Each Dealer gets about:

            need to be in crystal or seperate from imbedded

            16 state reports
            15 generic reports ( most of these i could do in alpha )
            6 Bank contracts
            8 Odd delivery reports
            2 warranty reports
            2 Gap reports
            2 Buyers Guides

            in alpha: ( these are common to all dealers )

            12 inventory reports
            18 standard money type reports ( some very complex)
            10 approximate other types of reports
            Dave Mason
            [email protected]
            Skype is dave.mason46

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              #7
              RE: Reports/Letters/and etc

              If I take your point, with so many reports you do not want to send them all to everyone but rather send selectively based on need (hence not embedded in the application) with the send process preferably able to be controlled dynamically.

              One thing that occurs to me is that you might explore the implications of embedding a file or layout in a report.

              I know this can be done. I once embedded a lengthy word processing file in the header of a report. This meant that I could fill the body of the report with dynamically generated data and someone else could attend to the word processing file which contained unstructured introductory text.

              Files can be renamed dynamically from within A5.

              I don't know your needs in detail but embedding one layout in another has saved me several times.

              Bill
              Bill Hanigsberg

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                #8
                RE: Reports/Letters/and etc

                If the reports are already setup in crystal or Word or excel, why not use DDE?

                We use dde to "poke" client information onto a monthly newsletter, then tell Word to print it. I do not want to get into the business of Word Processing, so we have a Word Template set up with bookmarks. using the correct client, we "poke" name and address information out to the Word Document and then tell Wod to do the printing. It works Great! Alpha is a wonderful package for managing DATA. We can do some pretty intricate reports, but standardized, customized letters or forms are more easily created in a Word Processor and then used by Alpha.

                If you would like, e-mail me, and I will send you an example.

                Tom

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                  #9
                  RE: Reports/Letters/and etc

                  Tom, Would you please send me an example also? Thanks in advance.
                  Wallace

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                    #10
                    RE: Reports/Letters/and etc

                    Thanks for your help.

                    A Law 553 simple interest contrsct is about 33" long, and takes a good programmer about 8-9 hours to make and test. It prints only on a dot matrix printer because of the 3 copies. The smallest imperfection or missed line makes it unusable. The contracts only cost abou .60, but the vehicle contract may be worht many thousands. I have not been able to get word to be exact enough to print these on a word processor so far. Word wishes to reformat the form for me. I have tried many others too.

                    Even most printers have to be special setup to do more than 14"

                    I have the form printing just fine from crystal using data from crystal, but cant seem to get alpha to send the needed commands to crystal.

                    To send this report/form to 200 customers (with no errors) is a challenge in Alpha. It means I would have to have all the support files for each customer saved on my hard drive and program each report in fo9r each customer as they asked for it. Sell/make 25 - 30 reports a day and see hard that is.

                    Ira Perlow is coming out with an updater soon. that could be a possibility for my situation. I would like to get off crystal.

                    Dave
                    Dave Mason
                    [email protected]
                    Skype is dave.mason46

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                      #11
                      RE: Reports/Letters/and etc

                      Tom, Would you please send me an example also? Thanks in advance
                      Barry

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