I have been consulting Microsoft's CoPilot for VFP questions related to Report Designer. Many of the answers I get back seem to be for a different version of the designer.
?Version() on my system returns "09.00.000.5815" Is this the latest version? Do I need some service packs? Is there an updated Report Designer version available that I should get?
My current issue with the designer is how to accumulate the total of the amount field on the detail lines and print it on the Group footer. The tutorials I've seen stop before they get to that point.
A recommendation for a site or book as a Report Designer reference would be appreciated as well.
Thanks in advance, Joe
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Joe - I know this is NOT going to be much help - But...
And - I have leaky Memory Banks - which makes it tough to get access to older data items...
From what I remember, I swear there were issues getting total #, especially
in footers. I swear - I had to do something REALLY Weird - like a trick where I would run a report 2 times - don't remember how. But, 1st time it was run was to get the totals and then somehow the 2nd time around I shoved those totals back into a report. Again - this was a Hella long time ago for me - I think it was around 2011 that I did that - thus the issue with my Leaky Memory Banks...
-K
On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM Joe Yoder joe@wheypower.com wrote:
I have been consulting Microsoft's CoPilot for VFP questions related to Report Designer. Many of the answers I get back seem to be for a different version of the designer.
?Version() on my system returns "09.00.000.5815" Is this the latest version? Do I need some service packs? Is there an updated Report Designer version available that I should get?
My current issue with the designer is how to accumulate the total of the amount field on the detail lines and print it on the Group footer. The tutorials I've seen stop before they get to that point.
A recommendation for a site or book as a Report Designer reference would be appreciated as well.
Thanks in advance, Joe
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I think that's SP2. But there's 3 hotfixes that bring it up to version 7923. One of the hotfixes is to the report writer so it's worth getting.
Check out https://github.com/VFPX/VFPInstallers
Bill Anderson
On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM Joe Yoder joe@wheypower.com wrote:
I have been consulting Microsoft's CoPilot for VFP questions related to Report Designer. Many of the answers I get back seem to be for a different version of the designer.
?Version() on my system returns "09.00.000.5815" Is this the latest version? Do I need some service packs? Is there an updated Report Designer version available that I should get?
My current issue with the designer is how to accumulate the total of the amount field on the detail lines and print it on the Group footer. The tutorials I've seen stop before they get to that point.
A recommendation for a site or book as a Report Designer reference would be appreciated as well.
Thanks in advance, Joe
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