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From: (Ernst Dierich)
Subject: Re: [PAF-5] Bad luck with custom defined reports
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 09:00:48 +0100
References: <001501c2b429$55383140$7736e23e@fsetsat520> <004901c2b42f$73abb290$79e4403e@stewart>


Good morning Stewart,

thanks a lot. The storing of user defined reports works as you described.
It's a pity but I shall and for the time being I have to get along with it.
Thank you once more.

Best regards
Ernst.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stewart Millar" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: [PAF-5] Bad luck with custom defined reports


Ernst,

This is a bug/problem I wrote about just after the release of 5.2 but did
not receive any confirmations from anyone on the list.

In actual fact, what I find is, that if the name of the Custom Report is
less than or equal to 22 characters it is picked up and appears on the drop
down list of reports available to "Open". If the report name is greater in
size, the report does not appear.

Quite a bit of programming to achieve that.

I now keep my report names less than 23 characters in length. Do let me know
if this works for you.

Regards,

Stewart

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ernst Dierich" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 7:41 PM
Subject: [PAF-5] Bad luck with custom defined reports


> Dear listeners,
>
> One of the excellent features of PAF 4 is the possibility to define own
> report-layouts, to store this layouts and to retrieve them.
>
> After switching for the second time to PAF 5 - early last year I ruefully
> returned from PAF 5.01 to PAF 4.04 - I am trying now to save my custom
> defined reports but without success. I follow meticulously all the
> instructions of the handbook but all my efforts are in vain. I define a
> report, modify the structure (fields), look at and print the content - no
> problems at all. When I press the "save"-button I hear something happening
> on my hard-disk and there is a new ".lay"-file with incremented file-name
in
> the PAF5-folder but the "open"-sreen of user-defined reports doesn't show
> any new file to reopen.
>
> Something is wrong - either with me or the program PAF 5.2 or its
> implementation. Can anybody help me ?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Ernst Dierich.



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