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    Print FreeForm report in Group Footer of another Freeform report

    Hi
    Backend is MariaDB
    I am trying to print a basic "Invoice Receipt" document. It is an invoice-receipt document from the invoice-receipt tables (primary key InvoiceReceiptID), which has, for each one, a list of products sold, saved in InvoiceReceiptProducts, and a list of payments for each invoice-receipt, saved in InvoiceReceiptPayments.

    The only way i found in Alpha to print the document with the list of products is by basing the SQL Datasource on InvoiceReceiptProducts, then grouping the report by InvoiceReceiptID. The report is filtered by whatInvoiceReceiptID to output just one document.

    I also have an InvoiceReceiptPayments report (also filtered by InvoiceReceiptID) that i would like to embed in the group footer of the main report, alas, linked reports have to be layout reports ( the InvoiceReceiptPayments report is freeform and has many conditional areas ), and the sub-report option does not seem suitable ( the documentation for sub-reports is ambiguous to say the least) particularly since, contrarily to the documentation, i didn't find a way to create a one-to-many relationship between the tables.

    Has any of you an idea on how to achieve the above? I am surprised it's so difficult to implement such a basic reporting feature.

    Many thanks
    Jaime

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    Re: Print FreeForm report in Group Footer of another Freeform report

    For this I would create the list of receipts as an HTML table and then use printhtml to print the table.

    I use a function to go through the records and create an HTML table that I then print directly from the report.

    But to do that you need to know how to write the SQL function. If that option will not work for you, then hopefully someone else will chime in.

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      #3
      Re: Print FreeForm report in Group Footer of another Freeform report

      Thanks Larry
      How do you construct the html table, and at what stage?

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        #4
        Re: Print FreeForm report in Group Footer of another Freeform report

        Below is a typical function that I would write. This one create a table of installment payments.

        Then you call it as part of a select statement:

        select myfunction(myid) as installment_table

        The function is based on using a cursor. A cursor allows you to loop through records in a SQL table.


        CREATE FUNCTION `Installment_Table`(tTrip_ID int) RETURNS varchar(2500)
        READS SQL DATA
        BEGIN
        declare tTable varchar(5000) default '<TABLE border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="2" width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD><B>Date Due</B></TD><TD align="Right"><B>Amount</B></TD></TR>' ;
        declare tRow varchar(1000) default '' ;
        declare tFinal_Row varchar(1000) default '' ;
        declare tFirst_Row varchar(1000) default '' ;
        declare tFor varchar(25) ;
        declare tFor_Last varchar(25) ;
        declare tI int default 1 ;
        DECLARE done INT DEFAULT 0;
        declare tAdultCount int default 99;

        declare tRowCount int default (select count(Trip_ID) FROM installment_schedule AS Inst
        WHERE Inst.Trip_ID = tTrip_ID) ;

        declare row_cursor CURSOR FOR

        SELECT
        Inst.Installment_for,
        concat('<TR><TD>Upon Registration</TD><TD align="Right">$',
        Inst.Installment_Amount, '</TD></TR>') as First_Row,
        concat('<TR><TD>', date_format(Inst.Installment_Date, '%a %b %D, %Y'), '</TD><TD align="Right">$',
        Inst.Installment_Amount, '</TD></TR>') as Installment_Row,
        concat('<TR><TD>', date_format(Inst.Installment_Date, '%a %b %D, %Y'), '</TD><TD align="Right">$Balance</TD></TR>') as Final_Row
        FROM
        installment_schedule AS Inst
        WHERE
        Inst.Trip_ID = tTrip_ID
        ORDER BY
        Inst.Installment_For, Inst.Installment_Date ;

        DECLARE CONTINUE HANDLER FOR NOT FOUND SET done = 1;

        OPEN row_cursor ;

        FETCH row_cursor INTO tFor, tFirst_Row, tRow, tFinal_Row;

        if tFor <> 'Everyone' then
        SET tTable = CONCAT(tTable, '<TR><TD><b>', tFor, '</b></TD><TD></TD></TR>') ;
        SET tAdultCount = (select count(Trip_ID) FROM installment_schedule AS Inst
        WHERE Inst.Trip_ID = tTrip_ID and inst.Installment_for = tFor) ;
        end if ;

        if tRowCount = 1 then
        set done = 1 ;
        end if ;

        SET tTable = CONCAT(tTable, tFirst_Row) ;

        set tFor_Last = tFor ;

        repeat

        if not done then

        set ti = ti + 1 ;

        FETCH row_cursor INTO tFor, tFirst_Row, tRow, tFinal_Row;

        if not done then

        if tFor <> tFor_Last then
        SET tTable = CONCAT(tTable, '<TR><TD><b>', tFor, '</b></TD><TD></TD></TR>') ;
        end if ;

        IF ti >= tRowCount then

        SET tTable = concat(tTable, tFinal_Row, '</TBODY></TABLE>') ;

        ELSE
        if ti = tAdultCount then
        SET tTable = concat(tTable, tFinal_Row) ;
        else
        SET tTable = concat(tTable, tRow) ;
        end if ;
        END IF ;

        end if ;
        end if ;

        set tFor_Last = tFor ;

        until done end repeat ;

        CLOSE row_cursor ;

        RETURN tTable;

        END

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