How are headers and page breaks handled in Sesame.  We're thinking of switching from Q&A 5 and wanted to be sure headers could be on each page.  I looked through the userguide but didn't see any examples of the 2nd page of the reports.

Thanks,
Chris

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Chris, you hit my hot spot! Until it's doable, I can't switch from QA5 either.

Last I checked, the reason you can't find a sample is because it can't be done since Sesame prints in HTML through the browser like a sausage machine. So far, it lacks the built-in print capability of Q&A.

Consequently, you'll only get a header and column headers on the first page with nothing on the following pages. Apparently you can modify the browser for headers and page numbers but would have to change it for each report, which is not practical for us. Does not resolve the missing column heads either. Have no clue about footers either.

In an earlier post on this subject, someone said they might add a report writer in some future version if there was enough demand. I thought all Q&A users needed this capability but guess I was wrong.

Be nice to get an update on this.

Do you know when 2.0 will be released ?  I'm currently maintaining our database in Q&A 5 but then export to Paradox 10 to print the reports so it would be nice if all the features were in a single database.

Chris

I'm having a similar issue.  Right now in Q&A I print inventory reports, that have a page break for each client.

That being said, couldn't a page-breaking report be generated with I/O and a merge to MS Word?  That's what I'm hoping to do (last part of my project, and I'm putting it off as long as possible!)

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Chris,

2.0 is in development. We have not yet set a release date. If you get Inside Sesame, we are publishing monthly development articles so people can see what features are being implemented and how they work. I'll be doing a two-hour demo of many of these features at the upcoming Users Conference in Las Vegas.

Again, you may want to get in touch with Customer Service or Technical Support. If you are exporting to Paradox to do your reports, then I assume that Q&A doesn't cover your needs. If you give either of these teams the specifics of what you need to do, they'll give you an honest answer (often with working examples)  regarding how your requirements would be handled using Sesame. If the Report Designer itself doesn't provide enough page control, the other printing and/or automation options may be able to get you what you need.

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One thing that always has messed me up with html reports is that the user is able to change the font size in internet explorer.   They click on View | Text Size and select the Largest setting it makes my text that looked good at the Medium setting word wrap to the next line.  I know with using cascade style sheets this can be fixed but I still haven't figured out how to set those sheets.  Is this a problem in Sesame ? Can you set the font size so users can't change it, regardless of there screen resolution or what they have internet explorer font size set at.

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You're right Alec, it's not automatic at all. It requires the user to have other software, the knowledge to use it, and the time to do so. This is definitely not realistic in an office environment.

Why not just finally bite the bullet and provide your own report writer so we can retain the capability of the old reliable "DOS is dead" Q&A?

As an application developer, I don't see how we can expect our "SOHO" users to know how to "tweak" HTML, Excel, browsers, Word or anything else, or how we can ask them to call Ray each time a different untrained office employee is asked to print a quick report. Or how we could keep up with supporting them  everytime someone changes their version of Word, IE, etc. Simply too many variables.

Although helpful add-ons, I don't think we should have to monitor Inside Sesame, go to seminars, go to Las Vegas or contact customer service just to get info that should be readily available in the manuals or on the web site.

Hammer noted "In version 1, all reports are generated as HTML". In which version will this no longer be the case?

Thanks?  ???