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Al_C
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I have a regular row column report that works fine, and I've been asked to take that data and create a 'worksheet' output.
This task is essentially taking all fields for a single record and creating a 2 column list of the field and it's data value.

In the past, I've used the subfoot/subhead commands to accomplish this, but I now require distinct columns in the output (the request asks for 3 additional columns that will have a column heading, but will contain no report data.

I've gone through on-line help, but placeholders <+0> and positionmarkers don't create the columns the way I expected
(blank spaces seem to disappear and I can't even get column headings to line up)

ex:
"last name : "first name : "address :

Is there an easier way to accomplish this task?

This message has been edited. Last edited by: <Kathryn Henning>,


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Prarie
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Make a dummy column with how many spaces you need.
DEFINE FILE WHATEVER
SP/A1 = HEXBYT(160, 'A1');
SP02/A5 = SP|SP|SP|SP|SP;
LNAME/A5 = SP02;
FNAME/A5 = SP02;
ADD/A5 = SP02;
END
 
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Al_C
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are you alluding to maybe there's a difference putting 5 spaces in the string Vs. a field containing 5 spaces?


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GavinL
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Got a code example of what your looking to do? Would ACROSS work?



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Dan Satchell
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Will OVER do the trick?

PRINT
 LASTNAME  OVER
 FIRSTNAME OVER
 ADDRESS


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Al_C
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I've looked at some older reports to see how other report writers have handled this. on method is below. Essentially a report of all subfoots.

The other method is to DEFINE each line of output (manually padding fields to line columns up) and then outputting each record by id by linenumber



code
-*
-*
-* FORMAT THE DATA INTO A WORKSHEET
-*
-*

TABLE FILE DATA_TO_FORMAT
BY CS_STUDENT_ID NOPRINT
ON CS_STUDENT_ID PAGE-BREAK AND SUBFOOT
-*ON CS_STUDENT_ID SUBFOOT
"Dependent Student Verification Checklist "
-*""
-*""
-*""
"Student Name: "Student ID: "IASU: Official/Yes or Incomplete "
-*""
-*""
" Match = Y Correction"
" NoMatch = Reqd? "
"FASI Isir Data DRT EnterValue (Y or N) "
"---------------------------------------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------"



"Dependency "Selected By CPS? (Y or N) "Verification Group


ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM OFF
-*ON TABLE SET ONLINE-FMT PDF

ON TABLE SET STYLESHEET *

TYPE = REPORT, GRID=OFF, SQUEEZE=OFF, $
TYPE=SUBFOOT, FONT = 'ARIAL', SIZE = 10 , $
-*-GOTO SKIP1
-* FIRST FIELD - sets up columns and their widths
TYPE = SUBFOOT, ITEM=1, JUSTIFY = LEFT, WIDTH=3.00, $
-* FIRST-SECOND GAP
TYPE = SUBFOOT, ITEM=2, JUSTIFY = LEFT, WIDTH=2.00, $
-* SECOND FIELD
TYPE = SUBFOOT, ITEM=3, JUSTIFY = LEFT, WIDTH=1.50, $
-* SECOND - THIRD GAP
TYPE = SUBFOOT, ITEM=4, JUSTIFY = LEFT, WIDTH=1.50, $
-* SECOND - THIRD GAP
TYPE = SUBFOOT, ITEM=5, JUSTIFY = LEFT, WIDTH=1.50, $
-*
TYPE = SUBFOOT, LINE = 1, JUSTIFY = CENTER, STYLE=BOLD, SIZE=12, $
-* 3 BL
TYPE = SUBFOOT, LINE = 5, JUSTIFY = LEFT, STYLE=BOLD, SIZE=10, $
TYPE = SUBFOOT, LINE = 6, JUSTIFY = LEFT, STYLE=BOLD, SIZE=10, $
TYPE = SUBFOOT, LINE = 7, JUSTIFY = LEFT, STYLE=BOLD, SIZE=10, $
-* 2BL
-*TYPE = SUBFOOT, LINE = 8, JUSTIFY = CENTER, $
-*TYPE = SUBFOOT, LINE = 9, JUSTIFY = CENTER, $
-*
TYPE = SUBFOOT, LINE = 10, FONT = 'SYSTEM', COLSPAN = 5, HEADALIGN = INTERNAL, JUSTIFY = LEFT, $
TYPE = SUBFOOT, LINE = 11, FONT = 'SYSTEM', COLSPAN = 5, HEADALIGN = INTERNAL, JUSTIFY = LEFT, $
TYPE = SUBFOOT, LINE = 12, FONT = 'SYSTEM', COLSPAN = 5, HEADALIGN = INTERNAL, JUSTIFY = LEFT, $
TYPE = SUBFOOT, LINE = 13, FONT = 'SYSTEM', COLSPAN = 5, HEADALIGN = INTERNAL, JUSTIFY = LEFT, $

TYPE = SUBFOOT, LINE = 14, FONT = 'SYSTEM', COLSPAN = 1, HEADALIGN = BODY, JUSTIFY = LEFT, $
TYPE = SUBFOOT, LINE = 15, FONT = 'SYSTEM', COLSPAN = 2, HEADALIGN = BODY, JUSTIFY = LEFT, $

TYPE = SUBFOOT, LINE = 15, FONT = 'SYSTEM', COLSPAN = 5, HEADALIGN = INTERNAL, JUSTIFY = LEFT, $
TYPE = SUBFOOT, LINE = 16, FONT = 'SYSTEM', COLSPAN = 5, HEADALIGN = INTERNAL, JUSTIFY = LEFT, $

ENDSTYLE
-*ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT &FRM
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT HTML
END


/code


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Danny-SRL
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Here is an easy way. It may not be what you are looking for, but it allows you by using an &variable to output a row or column report.
-* File AL01.fex
-REPEAT #AL FOR &I FROM 1 TO 2;
-SET &OP=DECODE &I(1 AND 2 OVER);
LET OP=&OP
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT 
COUNTRY OP 
CAR OP
BODYTYPE OP
SALES
END
-#AL


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GavinL
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I meant OVER, not ACROSS.. doh!



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