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    What happened to Print Group Icon

    In the LEARNING ALPHA FIVE: THE DATABASE FOR EVERYONE book written by Dr. Pete Wayne, he refers to a Print Group Icon that appears on the Alpha5 menu bar. I am running Alpha5 version 5 and I do not have this icon. Where did it go. This refers to my Print Current Record Problem when trying to print a form with data from parent and child tables.
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    RE: What happened to Print Group Icon

    Deb,

    You'll find a few such similar anomalies in Dr. Wayne's book. That's because teh book was written based on the Beta version of Alpha Five. The final version as we know it did not have some of the features he references. Then again, it also gained a few :)

    regards,
    Melvin Davidson

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      RE: What happened to Print Group Icon

      Thanks for the info about Dr. Wayne's book. Same might go for his Xbasic for Everyone publication - right? Your comment explains other inconsistenices between what's in print and what really happens. Sorry I spent the money!

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        RE: What happened to Print Group Icon

        Deb,

        The book was written in 1997 and was aimed at users of Alpha Five version 3. -- tom

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          #5
          RE: What happened to Print Group Icon

          Do you know what happened to the Print Group function?

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            RE: What happened to Print Group Icon

            Deb,

            Sorry, I don't recognize what you're talking about. What page is it on ?

            -- tom

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              RE: What happened to Print Group Icon

              See page 11 - refer to Figure Chapter 2-7. Form view icons - print group. It's right there in black and white.

              " The next group of three icons control printing of your data."

              "The first icon will print all or part of your data. The second icon will display the data to your screen before printing. The third icon will enable you to print the currently visible record, or set of data."

              That last sentence is very key to solving my problem. Does Alpha5 have that capability?

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                RE: What happened to Print Group Icon

                Deb,

                The three icons you're referencing are
                Print, Print Preview, and Print Current tools. It sounds like you're interested in the last one, 'Print Current'.

                The icon for 'Print Current' appears to have been changed in A5V5. Open the default form for a table in your A5V5 database. The icon on the toolbar that looks like a printer is preprogrammed to print the current record. The little black triangle next to it leads to other options. Though the picture in the icon has changed I think maybe the functionality is still there. However, there's a big caveat here that you need to know about. Printing forms works well for simple forms, but not for those that are complex, or which contain layered or conditional objects. It is not a screen print utility, as some might imagine. If you're having trouble printing your form, I recommend you design a report instead. -- tom

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                  RE: What happened to Print Group Icon

                  Thanks for the info about Dr. Wayne's book. Same might go for his Xbasic for Everyone publication - right? Your comment explains other inconsistenices between what's in print and what really happens. Sorry I spent the money!

                  Don't be. If it's a good book (and by all accounts here, it is) it will give you a good foundation for using A5. Make sure you check out the on-line resources available and, as you'll discover, you can learn what's changed here.

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                    RE: What happened to Print Group Icon

                    I appreciate your feedback but I am having the same difficulty printing a report with the details of just a "single selected" child record. To net out my goal:

                    One a single page (form or report)
                    Print Name, Address, ... from Demographics (parent table)
                    Print One Reservation from Reservations (child table)

                    With Alpha4 I could highlight the row on the imbedded browse and go to Choose Form (Reservation Form that had both parent and child data defined), Quick Print Form, and then return to my main screen. Or a could zoom to a detailed form and do the same thing.

                    With Alpha5 it seems I can only print data from the parent table OR the child table, but not both for a single selected child record. Print current record always gives me pages for every child record associated with the parent.

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