Quartam Reports questions

[Charles Szasz]

Jan,

Thanks for your reply! I have been ill for the past two weeks. As soon as I
feel better I will take a look at your suggestions. This is the first time I
looked at my e-mail for two days. If I have further question, I will e-mail
you. 

Thanks again!



Jan Schenkel wrote:
> 
> My apologies for the late reply, Charles - I was (foolishly) relying on
> the RSS feature to tell me if a new post had been placed onto the forum,
> and for some reason Safari didn't pick it up. And I left my Yahoo mail
> unread for about a week, so I didn't catch this post until this morning.
> 
> First of all, your reports are simply a different representation of the
> same data as in your stacks (or any other data source.) So your job as
> report designer is to provide a layout that the reprt engine can 'pour'
> the data into. 
> 
> You can use revTalk expressions to determine the content of data fields
> and whether or not certain report items are to be printed.
> Unfortunately, checkboxes are not in the toolbar, so you'll have to mimick
> them somehow. Two ideas spring to mind: referenced images or some
> graphics, in either case overlapping and with mutually exclusive printing
> conditions.
> As for printing in bold those checkboxes that are checked, again use two
> overlapping label fields, one in plain and the other in bold text; and
> apply the same mutually exclusive printing conditions.
> See the example 'printing with stacks' for an example of two label fields
> which are printed based on the 'mark' property of the current card.
> 
> Which brings me to the last part of the question: if your stack has
> multiple cards, you decide which cards are used in the report (see the
> examples and the manual for different card range options) - the report
> engine will then go to each card and evaluate the data field expressions
> and printing conditions within the context of that card as it builds the
> report.
> 
> Hopefully this clarifies things somewhat - if you have more questions or
> remarks do not hesitate to contact me.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Jan Schenkel
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> 
> 
> --- On Mon, 10/12/09, Charles Szasz <cszasz at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> From: Charles Szasz <cszasz at mac.com>
>> Subject: Quartam Reports questions
>> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>> Date: Monday, October 12, 2009, 10:35 AM
>> 
>> I have run into some problem using groups and checkboxes in
>> Quartam Reports.
>> I could not any solutions in Quartam Reports documentation.
>> I also posted my
>> questions at the Quartam Community web site but have
>> received no responses
>> to my questions.
>> 
>> I have a card with 18 checkboxes, which represent
>> recommendations. Which is
>> one of the following is feasible?
>> 
>> 1. Can Quartam Reports print only the recommendations that
>> have been
>> checked?
>> 
>> 2. Can Quartam Reports print all of the checkboxes but
>> print in bold the
>> checkboxes that have been checked ?
>> 
>> My second problem: I have a first name field, a last name
>> field, grade,
>> school and birth date fields. The fields are grouped into
>> one group named
>> group "info". The group is utilized as a background so they
>> can be used on
>> multiple cards. How do I script to have the group printed
>> in Quartam Reports
>> so they can be printed on one card?
>> 
>> Thanks for your time!
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