Hello Scott,

An easy way to identify that element on your form is to run a Mass Update that changes the background color of that element to bright green, or some other color that sticks out on your form.

You could also write a Mass Update that goes through every element and changes it's label to be it's element name. Run it and then print out the form. This way you have a hard copy of the form that shows you where every element is and what it's name is.

-Ray

Hello Scott,

Open Sesame
Open your DB file
Open Search/Update
Type "Max 1" without the quotes in an element
Hit F10
Enter the code below in the Mass Update program editor
Run the Mass Update
Hit F10 again to enter extend mode
Expand Record commands
Expand Printing commands
Choose Print Form

This will print out your form with the labels of every element set to the name of that element. The reason to enter extend mode is so that the form that is printed has no record data on it, as all you need is the names.

Var vElements as String
Var vCnt as Int
Var vLoop as Int
Var vName as String

vElements = @StringArrayElementlist()
vLoop = 1
vCnt = @CountStringArray(vElements)

while vLoop <= vCnt
{
	vName = @AccessStringArray(vElements, vLoop)
	SetThisElement(vName)
	Label(ThisElement, vName)
	vLoop = vLoop + 1
}
UnSetThisElement() 

Mass Updating is covered in the Sesame 1.1 User Guide on pages 263-283.

-Ray

Hello Scott,

To get a multi-page printout in the current version, you will see an option under Printing Commands that says Print Form to HTML. Choose that option. Give it a file name. Your default browser will open and display that file. You can then print the form out from your web browser and it will be on as many pages as it takes.

The

Label(ThisElement,@Label(ThisElement)) 

Did exactly what you told it to do. It set the Label of the current element to be the Label of the current element.

-Ray

Firefox does not like the resulting HTML.  The browser printout is chopping off at one page.  When I do a Print Preview I can see fields and labels hanging in limbo under the single page.

Internet Explorer prints 4 pages with no problem.

This could be a concern in the future as Firefox is our company-wide default browser.

So my boss is passing through the office as I read this and I says to him, I says, "These guys!  They keep teasing me with all the great stuff that's gonna be in Version 2 that I could really use right now.  Sheesh!"

And he, never one to deny me tools I need, says, "Why can't we get it?"

And I have to tell him that it's NOT OUT YET, it's still in Beta, they keep packing stuff into it and it'll never be ready!  Aarrggh!

Anyway, it sounds like it's going to be one hell of an upgrade.  You folks do great work.  But I'm going to have to stop thinking about 2.0 and concentrate on the tools I have now.  The HTML thing is not too much of a worry as I won't need it until further down the road, and I've already found an alternate solution.  Thanks for the help with the field names.

Now...is there an easy way to find all the elements that have "restrictions" brought over from Q&A?  I want to eliminate most, if not all of these.

I too use Firefox as well as Netscape and they both work just fine.

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My intention was not to tease you by telling you about the Form printing in 2.0. My intention was to let you know that in the future there will be an easier and simpler way to get a multi-page printout of your form. Version 2.0 is still in the Development stage at this point in time and has not entered the Beta cycle. It will be finished and it will be released.

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A way to get a list on the screen of all of the elements that have restrictions is to...
Open Sesame
Open Add Data Mode
Look in the Spec Window in the Lower Left hand corner
It should say "Check Restrictions for YourFormName"
Down below that will be a list of all the elements that have restrictions

In Sdesigner 2.0 you can select all elements that have restrictions. I also believe that in the 2.0 Q&A translator you will have the option to tell Sesame to not translate over the Restrictions.

-Ray