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    #16
    Originally posted by czar_g
    I thought I was doing sooooo well - but then REPORTS - what a Frickin mess..
    When I do as you request it prints no page number on any of the pages until the total grand sum page - which to you and I is correct -

    invoice 1, invoice 2 etc.... but noooo they want page 1, page 2, page 3 and then when a new invoice starts page 1, page 2, page 3 ....

    I'm still tryin to figure out why I'm gettin a blank page at the beginning of my page and in between each invoice - I have trim selected in report options..

    -looking for a clue....
    -UNCLE- as he screams

    ~g
    What you really want is a page footer for the group. I'll try to put something together for you.

    Blank pages - search the board. LOts of posts on that subject.

    Attachment should show page number you want. Look at property change for group custidno group.
    Last edited by Stan Mathews; 06-05-2006, 03:25 PM. Reason: attachment
    There can be only one.

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      #17
      Hi George,
      I am not sure which report you are referring to in here from the different reports in your database, but I have a question.

      If you are billing separate customers for which you want to give the different job detail on one multi-page invoice; why are you using a Report header and footer at all? That would group all the invoices for the 3 customers into one "report" of 3 invoices. If instead you omit the Report header and footer and use the customerid group header and footer, you ought to be able to get the right page count which would reset with each customerid break.

      I realize this is sample data, but you have all 3 customers using the same invoice number. Wouldn't the normal break be the invoice number which changes for each customer invoice? Something like this:

      Group1 Continuation Header: repeat Customer Name and Invoice # and job name.

      Group1 Header: Contains Company info, Invoice No., Customer name and address, etc. - what you have now in the Report header. Break on Invoice # and start a new page.

      Group2 Header: Job Info; break on Jobno

      Group3 (no header - breaks on date change)

      Group4 Header: Date and Truck Info; break on truck - keep together on page.

      Detail Header: For column titles, although they could be placed in the Group4 header and then the Detail header could be omitted.

      Detail: Ticket numbers, etc. - the columns

      Group4 Footer: Sub totals for each truck on that date - keep with detail.

      Group2 Footer: Sub totals for the Job

      Group1 Footer: Grand Total for Invoice Number

      Group1 Continuation Footer: text to show "continued..."

      Group1 Page Footer: page number for grp->invoiceno
      Last edited by MoGrace; 06-06-2006, 04:31 PM.
      Robin

      Discernment is not needed in things that differ, but in those things that appear to be the same. - Miles Sanford

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        #18
        Hello -

        Thanx for your response-

        The invoice number field you see is deceiving - it's actually a ticket number that is the invoice number - this DB was created in an old Alpha DOS version and they are so used to doing it this way it has been a nightmare. So when I created it I just used the same fields and names they had in the orig program.

        I've been struggling with the program for non-programmers for months.
        I am just a guy who thought he'd try and help them - but quickly became the owner... you do it - you own it...

        So here I sit.

        I used your example - modified it a little -
        Group 1 - Custidno
        and in the custidno page footer i placed pageno(grp->custidno)

        It breaks and all looks good until the grand total page prints it shows page 1
        the invoice is 30 pages for that particular customer each page shows 1, 2 , 3 - 29 then on the 30th page it shows 1...

        probably something simple I missed.

        ~george
        Last edited by czar_g; 06-06-2006, 07:31 PM.

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          #19
          By ticket number I assume you mean an internal work order type number? So that number is the overall reference they are using for the whole project? Could you not try to convince them that they can keep their project reference and still utilize "real" invoice numbering? Sometimes you have to "just say no" to things that people think they want to do - keeping in mind they don't know any better! The invoice number doesn't have to be anything they "track" per se, just a way to make this actually work right. You could even make it 2116-1, 2116-2, etc., if they prefer that to a completely different number series.
          Robin

          Discernment is not needed in things that differ, but in those things that appear to be the same. - Miles Sanford

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            #20
            Originally posted by MoGrace
            By ticket number I assume you mean an internal work order type number? So that number is the overall reference they are using for the whole project? Could you not try to convince them that they can keep their project reference and still utilize "real" invoice numbering? Sometimes you have to "just say no" to things that people think they want to do - keeping in mind they don't know any better! The invoice number doesn't have to be anything they "track" per se, just a way to make this actually work right. You could even make it 2116-1, 2116-2, etc., if they prefer that to a completely different number series.
            Mo - believe me - I've tried -
            Family run and owned business (very southern) Ger (owner) is 78 yrs old and NOT about to change! 2 woman in front office wife/daughter-in-law. they make money and have been keeping track of it this way forever.

            After I watched their method of madness - I began to see how they TRACK the jobs for the particular CODE. They had a lady who worked for them that programmed this wayyy back in 198? it was DOS Alpha - well with XP and the computer world changing they couldn't run it anymore. Actually had a 286 computer with old DOS Alpha on it that they ran the business from... you wouldn't beleive it..

            ~g

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