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    Form Headers and Footers

    Form Footer
    Is there a way to make a form Footer behave like the footer on a report so that when a form is printed, the footer will be at the bottom of the page?

    Form Header
    Is there a way to make the form Header behave like a continuing header on a report so when the form is printed, it prints at the top of each page?

    TYVM

    kenn
    TYVM :) kenn

    Knowing what you can achieve will not become reality until you imagine and explore.
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    Re: Form Headers and Footers

    Kenn

    The only way I would suggest to do what you want to do is to create a blank report and then import your form.

    Then go into report design and create a Report Page header and a report page footer. Then move the information you have in the form header into the report page header and then move the information that is in the form footer into the report page footer. Then go into region properties for the report page footer and check the bottom to justify to end of the page.

    Also put a page break at the end of the detail section so that you only show one record per page. Save the report. When printed (or previewed) the footer will always be at the bottom of the page.

    Save the report

    Now go into form design mode and put a button on the form, "Print Form" and then put code into the button to then get the current record number and then print the report.

    I have attached a zip sample file with what I think you want. It has a form with a form header and a form footer.

    Should be pretty self explanatory.

    Hope this helps.

    Tom
    Last edited by Tbaker; 01-01-2011, 06:19 PM. Reason: Changed the zip sample

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      #3
      Re: Form Headers and Footers

      Originally posted by Tbaker View Post
      The only way I would suggest to do what you want to do is to create a blank report and then import your form
      I exported the form by right clicking on the form name and exported. When I right clicked on the white space in the CP, (makes no diff which tab) my choice is to either backup and overwrite the export or create a new name. What's next? How is the form imported into the report? There is nothing in the A5 Help or Wiki which provides the necessary information.

      Edit
      I figured it out. The Wiki instructions on this subject have a bit to be desired. However, The Report Header is on a page by itself, the Report Detail does not start until page 2. I tried it with a Detail Header but got the same results and I didn't see anything in the Header properties to be of help.

      Any idea what's happening here?

      TYVM,

      kenn
      Last edited by forskare; 01-01-2011, 07:22 PM.
      TYVM :) kenn

      Knowing what you can achieve will not become reality until you imagine and explore.

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        Re: Form Headers and Footers

        Kenn

        In the reports tab created a new blank report based on your table. (The genie will ask you whether you create a blank report or the default with all the field - create a blank report.

        When the report editior opens, click on report in the menu and then click on import, a dropdown will come up, select form then the name of the form you want to import into the report. Then press okay. That form will now be imported in the detail section of the report. Then you create a page header and a page footter section and then cut and paste the forms header and the forms footer into the header and footer sections. Look at the directions in my last post to you.

        I have attached a thumbnail showing the dropdown when clicking on report in the menu of the report editory. And then selecting import.

        Tom

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          Re: Form Headers and Footers

          Hi Tom,

          Yes, I figured that part out. What I still need to figure out is why the header prints on a page all by itself. The detail begins on P2.

          TYVM,

          kenn
          TYVM :) kenn

          Knowing what you can achieve will not become reality until you imagine and explore.

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            Re: Form Headers and Footers

            See if the detail section is set to "Keep together on page". If so it may start on a new page to try to keep things together.
            There can be only one.

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              Re: Form Headers and Footers

              Ken,
              Think of the Report Header as a cover page....I rarely use it as it doesn't include any detail at least in how I have tried using it. I use the Page Header instead.
              Mike
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                Re: Form Headers and Footers

                Originally posted by Stan Mathews View Post
                See if the detail section is set to "Keep together on page". If so it may start on a new page to try to keep things together.
                Hello Stan and Mike, Happy New Year!!

                Mike, Thank you for the insight.

                Stan, YES, BINGO!! That did it.

                Summary:

                Rather than just let this go, perhaps a summary of the issue along with information supplied by Stan, Mike and Tom might be of help down the road.

                In my case, I had a sub-report begin in the last inch of the page and I wanted to 'Keep it Together'. There also was a frame around the sub-report. When the report printed, the frame not only appeared around the sub-report on the next page but it appeared all by itself at the bottom of the previous page. To eliminate this, I thought I'd try using a form and print the form as the report.

                The 'opportunity' to stretch began, at Tom Baker's suggestion, by importing a form to a blank report. (See Tom's suggestion and example above) When the report was printed, the Header appears as it should, at the top of the 1st page. However, unlike the many reports I've created in the past, that's all that was on the page and the detail section did not begin until page 2.

                At Stan Mathews suggestion I right clicked on the report Detail bar and had a look at the Detail properties and sure enough, the 'Keep it Together' check box was checked. Once this box was unchecked, the report printed as I expected, the Report Header at the top immediately followed by the Report Detail.

                Then, along comes Mike Christensen's suggestion. (See above) This shed a whole new aspect of creating a report I had not thought about, probably because I did not have the need to put the Report Header on a page by itself.
                Whether this report behavior was designed by Alpha or it simply just happened, I don't know. However, it does present a whole new approach to report design, at least to me.

                Suggestion to Alpha: Remove the 'Keep it Together' from the Detail section of the report and put in the Report Header section and, rename it to something like 'Keep Header on Separate Page'. I see no need for this property to be in the Detail section of the report. As a matter of fact, it doesn't make sense because if the report detail is short, it's not needed and if it's too long for one page, it's not wanted.

                Thank you again to Tom, Stan and Mike for the suggestions and thank you to Alpha for such a great product.

                kenn
                TYVM :) kenn

                Knowing what you can achieve will not become reality until you imagine and explore.

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