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j.gross
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Is there a setting to cause a subhead to repeat on each page, whenever a sort-break runs to multiple pages?

I have something like

PRINT [details]
BY sort1 NOPRINT
BY sort2 NOSPLIT NOPRINT
BY sort3 NOPRINT
ON sort2 SUBHEAD
"..."
HEADING
"... ..."

If there are several consecutive short sort2 groupings, NOSPLIT allows them to share the page, with an appropriate subhead above each group.

But if a sort2 groups needs more thn one page, I want its Subhead to print after the page heading, before the first detail lines, on each continuation page. Is there syntax to make that happen?

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- Jack Gross
WF through 8.1.05
 
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Doug
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That's not necessarily an easy task other then adding a line counter, which get's tricky, and do a conditional branch around "another subhead" if the line counter is not satisfied.
 
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j.gross
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Not easy at all.

I thought there was a post once about a new feature, or at least an NFR. Maybe in my dreams....
 
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Alan B
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I know it is bare bones, but could you use something like:
TABLE FILE GGSALES
PRINT DOLLARS
BY CATEGORY
HEADING
"HEADING"
WHEN TABPAGENO EQ 1
HEADING
"<CATEGORY"
WHEN TABPAGENO NE 1
ON CATEGORY SUBHEAD
"<CATEGORY"
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
END


Alan.
WF 7.705/8.007
 
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j.gross
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Hmmm...maybe it's not so complicated:
ON SORT3 SUBHEAD
"...same as for SORT2..."
WHEN (TABPAGENO NE LAST TABPAGENO) AND (SORT 1 EQ LAST SORT1) AND (SORT2 EQ LAST SORT2);

But not entirely clear (certainly not publicaly documented) exactly what event triggers WHEN for a subhead, and what value TABPAGENO and LAST TABPAGENO have at that point. Can't affort either TYPE I or TYPE II errors.


- Jack Gross
WF through 8.1.05
 
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j.gross
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NOGO.

When I tried it, it almost worked.

I did get a sort3 conditional subhead on the continuation page -- but there was a detail line printed above it. That lonely detail line belonged to the sort3 group that started on the prior page, and BY sort3 had a NOSPLIT.

I guess NOSPLIT and conditional SUBHEAD/SUBFOOT don't play nicely together: the genii obviously calculated that the entire sort3 group (with applicable subfoot lines) would fit on the prior page, and that was untrue. So when it decided not to flip the page, it wound up with no room for the last detail line, and the sort3 sort-break did not occur until after that orphaned detail was rendered on the next page.

I don't see why TABPAGENO NE LAST TABPAGENO was true after the orphaned detail was emitted, but as I said the specs for evaluating TABPAGENO (and LAST TABPAGENO) are unpublished.


- Jack Gross
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