Columnar Reports in HC - yes but I did it manually (mea culpa)

[Barry Levine]

Richard,

I think (now know) you are correct. Perhaps the years had provided me 
with a "senior moment"... I just took a few moments to bring up the old 
HC stack set I had been referring to and found that I had linked my 
stacks hierarchically (manually, of course) so that one card's fields 
(a series of columns with "header" info above) in the "parent" stack 
was populated (via HyperTalk) from the matching -set- of cards in the 
"child" stack. I had been doing my own "many-to-one" lookups and 
filling in the fields' contents. Once that was done, HC's Report 
Generator was called with a saved report format. It was, indeed, a 
columnar report but I made it columnar through manual means. I was 
doing Business Basic DB work at that time and was used to manual 
lookups. While what I was doing was slow in HC under 7.6.1 on an '030, 
it absolutely screams under 9.2.2 on an 867/G4.

So I grovel at the feet of the RunRev mavens but still long for a real 
tabular report methodology in Rev. If anyone else has suggestions for 
me, I will gratefully accept them.

Isn't there a sample stack set somewhere that shows how the report 
object is to be used? How about printing a card with parallel columns 
of multi-line fields whose data extends beyond what can be seen with a 
scroll of 0? I think Jeanne had some comments on this but, again, is 
there an example stack somewhere that I can dissect?

Thanks,
Barry

On Saturday, Jun 14, 2003, at 15:32 America/Denver, Richard Gaskin 
wrote:

> Did HC's report tool do columnar reports?
>
> I'd opened it and poked around prior to posting, but could only find
> capabilities similar to Rev's Report Builder.
>
> If so, it would be useful to review that interface for ideas on 
> building a
> replacement,  though it's hard to imagine it could compare to the more
> comprehensive options of specialized third-party tools like Reports 
> Data
> Pro, which might make a better model to follow.
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