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    Form calling Label print Issue

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    I had a Maintenance Form (with an embedded browse within) based on a single table and on that Form a button used to call a label print (filtered on currently selected records). This worked a treat. I could use the Filter Genie and pick out the records I wanted (show in my browse area), make any changes to any records I selected and print labels for records selected in that current filter.

    I then had to change the Form to be based on a Set (the prior table being the parent in the set) - so I could take advantage of using the ref integrity feature. I did a 'copy to' on the Form - from the table to the set - all good. A did a 'copy to' on the label print to the Set, took out the extra report filter and order parameters that A5 inserted during the 'copy to' (assumably a bug), so my label report was once again defined as filtered on 'currently selected records'. When I launch the label print from the Form, the label print only prints one label - for the last record in the current filter - not all records selected by the curent filter.

    Should what I have done work? I have tried all sorts of variants in the label print but can not get it to print labels for the records currently filtered on my Form. If I change my Form back to being based on the table and take my label print back to that table as well - all works fine. Can anyone comment on whether they have experienced such an issue - or suggest if your method of attacking the scenario would be different.

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    RE: Form calling Label print Issue

    The one thing I would check is to enter the label in design mode, check the label properties, label tab, "Table Level:" and make sure this got changed to the set parent.
    There can be only one.

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      RE: Form calling Label print Issue

      Further on the above, I have now created a new label print based on the set and tried calling it from my Form based on the same set. If in my Form I run a filter that only tests fields in the parent table of the set, then my labels will print for the selected/filtered records. (it seems 'copy to' on th eoriginal label print from my table to the set did not do all that was required - noting that the table it was originally based on is the parent of the set that I did the 'copy to' - so all field names were the same etc.

      However, if in my Form filter I include an additonal test - on a field from a child record in the set - the report will not run - I get a dialoge box saying that my current Form/browse is based on a different table or set than the report - but clearly it is not - it is based on the very same Set. I am wondering now if the 'Copy To' used on the Form messed something up.. I guess I will now re-do the Form and see what happens.

      If anyone can comment on whether I should be able to have a Form based on a Set call a label Print based on the same set with any current query/filter in the Form being usable by the called Label print - then that would be most helpful.




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        RE: Form calling Label print Issue

        Thanks Stan - yep the Table Level is OK (the Parent Table in the set).
        I have since re-done the Label print from Scratch and it is now part way towards working.

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