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shravan
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Hello everybody,

I have a .fex which goes like this... 

TABLE FILE XYZ
PRINT
BUSINESSNAME 
     BUSINESSNUMBER
     BRANCHNAME
     RVP
     RC
     LOANCOUNT
     OUTSTANDINGPRINCIPAL
     COLLECTIONSCODING OVER
     COMMENT  
...


"Comment" is a text field.When I try to run this report, I get an error message saying '0 ERROR AT OR NEAR LINE 115 IN PROCEDURE ADHOCRQ FOCEXEC *
(FOC687) TEXT FIELDS CANNOT BE PRINTED WITH OVER'.

Is there any way to print the "Comment" field in the next line (even though it is a text field)?

Thanks.

Shravan


7.7.03, Windows 7, SQL Server 2005
 
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Francis Mariani
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Text fields are nasty creatures.

Convert the Text field to Alpha:

DEFINE FILE CAR
TEXT1/TX50 = 'THIS IS A TEST';
TEXT2/A200 = TEXT1;
END

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
COUNTRY
OVER TEXT2
END


Francis


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shravan
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Thanks a lot, Francis. That worked.


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Danny-SRL
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There might be a problem when assigning a text field to an alpha field: it could be larger than the assigned number of bytes. Also you might have to use wrapping.

Another solution would be to put the text field in a subfoot:
  
-* File text1.fex
DEFINE FILE CAR
TEXT1/TX10='This is a text field to be put in a subfoot';
END
TABLE FILE CAR
BY COUNTRY
ON COUNTRY SUBFOOT
"<TEXT1 "
END


Daniel
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wf 8.202M/Win10/IIS/SSA - WrapApp Front End for WF

 
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shravan
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Great idea, Danny. I used this idea.


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Francis Mariani
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When I run the code with a text field in a SUBFOOT, I get the following error on v5.3.2:


An error has been detected during server to client data transfer. 
ERROR: -12: Server disconnected, cause 32026 Eda code -12



It works in v7.6. You may still have to play with wrapping, as, in a HTML report, the subfoot gets wrapped to the width of the report column.


Francis


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Danny-SRL
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Francis,

Yes, there used to be many problems with text fields in 5. And I shall not recount the horrors we encountered here with right-to-left output...

In 7, most of them have been fixed. Try this example:
  
-* File text1.fex
DEFINE FILE CAR
TEXT1/TX10='This is a text field to be put in a subfoot';
END
TABLE FILE CAR
BY COUNTRY 
BY CAR 
ON COUNTRY SUBFOOT
"<TEXT1"
END

Look also what happens if you add:
  
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=SUBFOOT, HEADALIGN=BODY, $
ENDSTYLE

or:
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=SUBFOOT, HEADALIGN=BODY, COLSPAN=2, $
ENDSTYLE


Daniel
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