What on earth does this mean?


(FOC3296) Error found in Coordinated Compound Report: At Component report22
(FOC3303) Compound report COMPONENT out of order

I have a Document Composer compound PDF report. It has nine INCLUDE statements for the nine parts of the compound PDF. For each one of them, I test if there are zero lines - if there are zero lines, I go to a unique label to create a pdf with an empty message, so no duplicate labels anywhere in the 9 fexes.

In one case, where none of the 9 reports have zero lines, the compound pdf gets displayed. In another case, one of the 9 reports has zero lines - I only get that zero line report - no compound repot. There are no -EXIT statements in any of the fexes.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Francis Mariani,

COMPOUND essentially ignores unformatted HOLD requests, and only grabs results of formatted-output requests.

You leave unclear whether you are detecting an empty answer-set on a TABLE ... HOLD (and then branching to either a normal report or a "regrets" report) -- or detecting it on a TABLE to PDF (the "normal" output request).

If the latter, you'd be running two "formatted output" reports where COMPOUND is expecting only one, which is asking for trouble.

Ah! I will verify that all nine reports detect before create...

Cf. Isaiah 28:20

Jack, that was it. Thanks for the tip.

One of the things I cannot capture is if the error is in the PDF creation, for example, panelling not compatible with HEADALIGN=BODY...