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Tracie Jones
Platinum Member
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I have generated receipts and letters in webfocus. These receipts and letters involve a lot of formatting and tedious work to make them appear correctly. They are currently sorted by id and gift number, but now I am asked to sort them in ABC order. When I change the sort the entire format is ignored. How can I change my sort without messing up my formats?

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tbj
Prod WF 8.1.05,Test WF 8.1.05, WINDOWS 7 Platform, Oracle 12
Excel, PDF, Alpha
 
Posts: 132 | Location: Chapel Hill, NC | Registered: October 24, 2006Report This Post
Prarie
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Do have specific styling referencing columns in your stylesheet?...normally just changing a sort field would not effect formatting.


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Tracie Jones
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Yes, the first two fields I want to delete and change to BY LAST_NAME AND BY FIRST_NAME

TABLE FILE ACKHOLD
BY SPRIDEN_ID NOPRINT
BY GIFT_NO_KEY NOPRINT
BY FILLER AS ' '
BY 'ACKHOLD.ACKHOLD.GDATE' AS 'GIFT DATE'
BY 'ACKHOLD.ACKHOLD.GAMT' AS 'GIFT AMOUNT(S)'
BY FILLER AS ''
BY 'ACKHOLD.ACKHOLD.DESIGNATION_NAME' AS 'DESIGNATION(S)'
ON ACKHOLD.ACKHOLD.SPRIDEN_ID PAGE-BREAK
HEADING
" <+0>Thank you for your contribution in support of North Carolina Agricultural " State University. For questions please call 336.334.7600."
" "
" "
" "
" "
" "
" "
" "
" "
" " " " " " " " "
FOOTING
" "
" Thank you for your monthly support. These are exciting times here at " with great confidence to what the future holds."
" "
" Sincerely,"
" "
" "
" ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM OFF
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
UNITS=IN,
PAGESIZE='SCREEN',
LEFTMARGIN=0.500000,
RIGHTMARGIN=1.000000,
TOPMARGIN=0.0000,
BOTTOMMARGIN=0.000000,
SQUEEZE=ON,
ORIENTATION=PORTRAIT,
$
TYPE=REPORT,
FONT='TIMES NEW ROMAN',
SIZE=12,
COLOR='BLACK',
BACKCOLOR='NONE',
STYLE=NORMAL,
RIGHTGAP=0.125000,
TOPGAP=0.000000,
BOTTOMGAP=0.000000,
$
TYPE=DATA,
COLUMN=N7,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=DATA,
COLUMN=N4,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=DATA,
COLUMN=N5,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=TITLE,
COLUMN=N7,
SIZE=10,
STYLE=BOLD,
$
TYPE=TITLE,
COLUMN=N4,
SIZE=10,
STYLE=BOLD,
$
TYPE=TITLE,
COLUMN=N5,
SIZE=10,
STYLE=BOLD,
$
TYPE=HEADING,
LINE=1,
OBJECT=TEXT,
ITEM=2,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=HEADING,
LINE=1,
OBJECT=TEXT,
ITEM=3,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=HEADING,
LINE=1,
OBJECT=TEXT,
ITEM=4,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=HEADING,
LINE=1,
OBJECT=FIELD,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=HEADING,
LINE=2,
OBJECT=TEXT,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=HEADING,
LINE=2,
OBJECT=TEXT,
ITEM=2,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=HEADING,
LINE=2,
OBJECT=FIELD,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=HEADING,
LINE=3,
OBJECT=TEXT,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=HEADING,
LINE=4,
OBJECT=TEXT,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=HEADING,
LINE=5,
OBJECT=TEXT,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=HEADING,
LINE=6,
OBJECT=FIELD,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=HEADING,
LINE=7,
OBJECT=TEXT,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=HEADING,
LINE=7,
OBJECT=FIELD,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=HEADING,
LINE=8,
OBJECT=FIELD,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=HEADING,
LINE=9,
OBJECT=FIELD,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=HEADING,
LINE=10,
OBJECT=TEXT,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=HEADING,
LINE=10,
OBJECT=FIELD,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=HEADING,
LINE=11,
OBJECT=TEXT,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=HEADING,
LINE=11,
OBJECT=FIELD,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=HEADING,
LINE=12,
OBJECT=TEXT,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=HEADING,
LINE=12,
OBJECT=FIELD,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=HEADING,
LINE=13,
OBJECT=TEXT,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=HEADING,
LINE=13,
OBJECT=FIELD,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=HEADING,
LINE=14,
OBJECT=TEXT,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=HEADING,
LINE=14,
OBJECT=FIELD,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=HEADING,
LINE=15,
OBJECT=TEXT,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=HEADING,
LINE=15,
OBJECT=FIELD,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=HEADING,
LINE=16,
OBJECT=TEXT,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=HEADING,
LINE=16,
OBJECT=FIELD,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=HEADING,
LINE=17,
OBJECT=TEXT,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=HEADING,
LINE=17,
OBJECT=FIELD,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=FOOTING,
LINE=1,
OBJECT=TEXT,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=FOOTING,
LINE=1,
OBJECT=TEXT,
ITEM=2,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=FOOTING,
LINE=1,
OBJECT=FIELD,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=FOOTING,
LINE=2,
OBJECT=TEXT,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=FOOTING,
LINE=2,
OBJECT=TEXT,
ITEM=2,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=FOOTING,
LINE=2,
OBJECT=FIELD,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=FOOTING,
LINE=3,
OBJECT=TEXT,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=FOOTING,
LINE=3,
OBJECT=TEXT,
ITEM=2,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=FOOTING,
LINE=3,
OBJECT=FIELD,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=FOOTING,
LINE=4,
OBJECT=TEXT,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=FOOTING,
LINE=4,
OBJECT=TEXT,
ITEM=2,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=FOOTING,
LINE=4,
OBJECT=FIELD,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=FOOTING,
LINE=5,
OBJECT=TEXT,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=FOOTING,
LINE=6,
OBJECT=TEXT,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=FOOTING,
LINE=7,
OBJECT=TEXT,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=FOOTING,
LINE=7,
OBJECT=FIELD,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=FOOTING,
LINE=8,
OBJECT=TEXT,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=FOOTING,
LINE=8,
OBJECT=FIELD,
ITEM=1,
SIZE=10,
$
TYPE=REPORT,
COLUMN=N6,
WRAP=0.402778,
$
TYPE=REPORT,
COLUMN=N3,
WRAP=0.220556,
$
ENDSTYLE
END


tbj
Prod WF 8.1.05,Test WF 8.1.05, WINDOWS 7 Platform, Oracle 12
Excel, PDF, Alpha
 
Posts: 132 | Location: Chapel Hill, NC | Registered: October 24, 2006Report This Post
Francis Mariani
Expert
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The fact that you're referencing your report columns in the style-sheet with positional names (N7, N4 etc.) is the reason that the styling is not working - since you added new BY statements, all the positional names would have to be changed. The easier thing to do would be to use the real column names, and when you specify a report column more than once (e.g. in a BY NOPRINT and as a column) simply use field_name(*) to refer to the column (e.g. TYPE=DATA, COLUMN=LAST_NAME(*), SIZE=10, $ The * will style all columns with the name LAST_NAME.


Francis


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Alan B
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quote:
Yes, the first two fields I want to delete and change to BY LAST_NAME AND BY FIRST_NAME

TABLE FILE ACKHOLD
BY SPRIDEN_ID NOPRINT
BY GIFT_NO_KEY NOPRINT
BY FILLER AS ' '
BY 'ACKHOLD.ACKHOLD.GDATE' AS 'GIFT DATE'
BY 'ACKHOLD.ACKHOLD.GAMT' AS 'GIFT AMOUNT(S)'
BY FILLER AS ''
BY 'ACKHOLD.ACKHOLD.DESIGNATION_NAME' AS 'DESIGNATION(S)'
ON ACKHOLD.ACKHOLD.SPRIDEN_ID PAGE-BREAK


Tracie, this should be no problem, don't forget to change the PAGE-BREAK line as well.

quote:

" Sincerely,"
" "
" "
"
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM OFF

I notice that there is a double quote missing before the ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM OFF.

Other than that I can see nothing untoward at all.

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