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- From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades)
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- Subject: Re: FileMaker Pro -question on page boundaries
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.171103.3600@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 17:11:03 GMT
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- bub@theus.rain.com (Barbara Theus) writes:
-
- >I have created a layout with multiple sub-summaries and have marked each
- >part definition that I do not want to break the part across page
- >boundaries. This doesn't work the way I expect it to.
-
- The Do not break across page boundaries option in the Layout Parts
- dialog is so that if you have a large Part that would have had some of
- it on the bottom of one page and the rest on the top of the next, FM Pro
- will keep the whole part together and put it all at the top of the next
- page. This is how it's supposed to work according to the manual.
-
- >Part Definitions:
-
- > Header
- > Sub-Summary by Stock (no page boundary breaks)
- > Sub-Summary by Names (no page boundary breaks)
- > Footer
-
- Where does the Body factor into this layout, and what is being
- printed in the Body.
-
- >I then sort by Stock first, Names second. My goal is to have a list
- >of all Names under each Stock. The list I get is great. However, I
- >can't seem to prevent the page boundary breaks.
-
- >What I'm trying to do is to prevent the list of names from wrapping to
- >the next page. If there are too many names, I want a page break before
- >typing the Stock. What I expected was a page break before the Stock
- >(Stock2 in above example), so that all names associated with that will
- >fall on the same page. My database has 1-8 names per stock.
-
- The page boundary breaks apply only to each part individually. If
- you have a single part that is used multiple times on the page then each
- part is looked at as separate from the rest. That is why you are getting
- the output you have.
-
- >Any ideas how to get FileMaker Pro to output this in the format I want?
- >Any and all suggestions are appreciated. TIA.
-
- Unfortunately, there is no way to have FM Pro do what you want, what
- you are asking for is very fine record by record control that you can't
- get unless you program it in yourself. Since FM Pro has no programming
- language you can't do this. The only possible solution to your problem
- is to print out one stock per page. It might be a bit of a waste, but
- you will arrive with a solution close to what you want.
-
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