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MacLonghorn
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I'm trying to produce a compound PDF that has most of its data in columns. There are 3 financial type reports, each of which only has 7 rows, but around 100 columns. Is there any way to "wrap" the extra columns onto the following page, so that I get the "FOR" column repeated on each page, and the "across" columns are the data that flow?


Thanks.

Mark
WF 7.6 Windows
 
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atturhari
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Try with BY field.
Not sure if it helps,

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT CAR
SALES CAR
SALES CAR
SALES CAR
SALES
BY COUNTRY
ON TABLE SET BYPANEL 1
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
END

Hari
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Darin Lee
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Try the BYPANEL setting. From the docs:

Parameter:
BYPANEL

Description:
Enables display of By fields in the left portion of each panel of a multi-panel report.

Syntax:
SET BYPANEL = option where:

option

Is one of the following:

ON repeats the sort field values on each report panel.

OFF does not repeat sort field values on each report panel. Fields are displayed only on the first panel, and columns may split between panels. This value is the default.

0 does not repeat sort field values on each report panel, and columns do not split between panels.

n repeats n columns of sort fields on each report panel. The value for n can be equal to or less than the total number of sort fields specified in the request.



If you've got 7 rows and 100 columns, I would suggest flipping the report to show 100 rows in 7 columns. Easily done with some DEFINEs. That's an awfully wide report to just display 7 rows.


Regards,

Darin


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MacLonghorn
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Thanks All! I'll look into the BYPANEL option.

Darrin, also a good point. As you may have guessed, I'm reproducing an existing report currently done by hand. I suspect the client likes the existing format b/c it makes it easier to do visual comparisons side-by-side, but it's worth running up the flagpole.


Thanks.

Mark
WF 7.6 Windows
 
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MacLonghorn
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ok, so here's a related question: i read about the column limit but was a little unclear about how to calculate it when you have an across. my report will have about 20 FML rows and over 100 values for 1 single ACROSS field. Example:

TABLE FILE MYFILE
SUM AMOUNT
FOR ACCOUNT
1 OVER
2 OVER
...
20
ACROSS FUND AS ''
ON TABLE SET BYPANEL ON
END

Am I going to exceed the table request limits? What's the calculation? I think I read there was a way to code around this limitation. Does anyone know about it and/or have a link?

Thanks.


Thanks.

Mark
WF 7.6 Windows
 
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