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Pre-printed forms
Apr 19th, 2011 at 7:50pm
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I have a Q&A Invoice database and pre-printed invoice forms.
I have converted the database to Sesame and now I want to design the report to print invoices on the pre-printed forms.
Do I put each element in the Group Body and program a PrintString for each element?
Or is there a way to write a program that will specify all the PrintString commands at once?
Are there any samples or tutorials around that do this sort of printing?
  
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Reply #1 - Apr 19th, 2011 at 8:20pm
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magicfish -

If you are going to be working with PrintString() commands, you can skip building your report in report designer all together and add your programming to the On Element Entry event of a command button on your form.

To see an example of PrintString being used to "fill-in" an Invoice template, take a look at the programming in the 'Print' element's On Element Entry event in the Sesame Seasons sample application.

More information about PrintString() can be found on page 338 of the 2.0 Programming Guide.
  
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Reply #2 - Apr 21st, 2011 at 8:12pm
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Ben,
I just now got a chance to take a look at Sesame Seasons. That will be very helpful, but I know I'm going to have more questions later.
It looks like in the future I might be able to use this example to get rid of the pre-printed forms and print the whole thing from Sesame, but for now, I want to print to the forms. I print batches of 30 to 150 invoices at a time and I have to run it 3 times for different coloured paper copies.
Do you know of an example that uses a report for filling in forms?
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Glenn
  
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Re: Pre-printed forms
Reply #3 - Apr 21st, 2011 at 8:26pm
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Reports don't have the precision placement capability that PrintString supplies. This tends to be important for getting everything to land in particular places on pre-printed forms.

To do batches, you put the PrintString code into a mass update. This will print an invoice for each record in your batch.
  
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Reply #4 - Apr 21st, 2011 at 8:28pm
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OK, I guess I start studying Mass Update now.
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Reply #5 - Apr 21st, 2011 at 8:35pm
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magicfish wrote on Apr 21st, 2011 at 8:28pm:
OK, I guess I start studying Mass Update now.
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In a nutshell, it runs the same piece of SBasic code for each record in your batch.
  
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