O$: report page break

Jim Pistrang jim at jpcr.com
Wed Jul 10 06:48:16 EDT 2013


Thanks Terry & Dave, this should work.

What is the best way to force a page break once I determine that one is necessary?  Can I just say  Do $cinst.$endpage()  ?

Jim

>Hi Jim,
>
>for any given font, there are a certain number of lines per inch. You 
>could add a field to each line of the list that indicates the total 
>number of student records for each school.
>
>
>When looping thru the list, do some extra logic if the school changes to 
>see if you need to do a page break.  When the page breaks, reset a 
>linesprintcount to  and then increment it by the lines required for a 
>header and for a record.
>
>terry
>
>On 7/9/13 2:05 PM, Jim Pistrang wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> In the category of I really should know this....
>>
>> I have a report based on a list that loops through the list and does a
>Print Record for each line in the list.  There is a single subtotal
>level in the report, with a Subtotal Header section.  Usually there are
>2 or 3 records for each section, but occasionally there are more or
>less.  I want to break to a new page for a new header whenever the
>detail records will not fit on the old page.  How can I do this?
>>
>> The report output looks like this:
>>
>> SCHOOL
>>    student record
>>    student record
>> SCHOOL
>>    student record
>> SCHOOL
>>    student record
>>    student record
>>    student record
>>    student record
>> SCHOOL
>>    student record
>>    student record
>>
>> To rephrase my question, I never want to split up a SCHOOL from its
>student records.  How can I do this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> JIm
>>
>>
>
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