We've noticed a funny thing when we print our various reports, like the daily and monthly sales reports. Some of the reports are divided into separate pages so that each dealer's information and subtotals prints on it's own page. This behavior is controlled by a certain CSS tag called 'page-break-after' which I noticed gets inserted into the html table after each dealer's data has been laid out into the various table cells.

This is where something buggy takes place. We do not use Internet Explorer as our default web browser. Rather, we use Firefox, which we keep updated with the latest versions and upgrades. Apparently this particular CSS page-break tag still has incomplete compatibility with Firefox in that it doesn't work when the tag is nested inside an html table.

In Internet Explorer there is no problem and the reports print out on individual pages. But in Firefox the tag is ignored and all the reports print out on sequential pages with no regard to which dealer's data is being printed on what page.

Now, I messed around in the html file that Sesame created and edited things so that the CSS tag in question came after the table and everything worked properly when I printed the pages out.

So my question is, is there a way to go in and edit the way that Sesame creates an html file so that the output comes out differently? I know we could solve the problem by switching back to Internet Explorer but that is something we don't want to do at this point. I'd rather solve this problem some other way.

Thanks,
Mark

What version of Sesame are you running, Mark?

If you use CreateAProcess you can force the report to open in Internet Explorer (as well as your default, Firefox).  I have a report that prints a bare-bones Invoice report to IE, because we sometimes send them via email and Firefox does not have the "File-Send-Page by Email" ability that IE does.  Here's my code for the "Print To Browser" button:

#INCLUDE "sbasic_include.sbas"

Var vFilename as String
var vCount as Int

vCount = @ResultSetTotal()

IF @MODE() = 2
THEN @MSGBOX("This button only works in ADD or UPDATE mode", "", "")
ELSE
IF vCount > 1
THEN @MSGBOX("This printout only works for a single Invoice.", "You have retrieved " + vCount + " Invoices", "Please narrow your selection to one record.")
ELSE
IF vCount = 1
THEN
	{
	vFilename = @PrintAReport("Invoice to Browser", REPORT_MODE_HTML_PREVIEW, PRINT_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT, 0, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1)
	CreateAProcess("C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe " + vFilename)
	} 

Hopefully there's something there you can use.

Hello Mark,
There is a optional ini file entry that should allow you to print from Firefox and still retain your page breaks. Please open the Sesame.ini file (C:/Sesame2/Sesame.ini) and add the line below.

Report Page Break Always: On

Ooh, so many people chiming in on this one! Thanks, everyone for the feedback. I'll dig around and see what we can come up with. Will check back in after.

Thanks,
Mark