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How does that correct the problem with *long* company names? <grin>....maybe
Re: New Generic Reports
From: Michael Phillips
Date: Friday, January 8, 1999
Time: 1:30:11 pm
a visual look at the problem:
Login Name Company Est Date
-------------------------------------------------
login Joe Sixpak The Wish 1/2/99
login1 Jill Eightpak This is a long name 1/2/99
login2 Mary Lamb 1/2/99
A better way would be:
Login Name Company Est Date
--------------------------------------------------------------
login Joe Sixpak The Wish 1/2/99
login1 Jill Eightpak This is a long name 1/2/99
login2 Mary Lamb 1/2/99
So, if the maximum length of a field in a record is say 20 characters then
the place marker should "reserve" 20 characters for every row on the report.
Mike
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> [mailto:owner-isp-list@chronos.cardina.net]On Behalf Of OptiGold User
> Sent: Friday, January 08, 1999 1:50 PM
> To: isp-list@data-point.com
> Subject: Re: [Optigold-ISP] New Generic Reports
>
>
>
> I corrected this problem by adding a tab <T> between <FName> and <LName>
>
>
> At 09:58 AM 1/8/99 -0800, you wrote:
> >Michael Phillips wrote:
> >
> >>First of all, thanks for the new generic report generation capability.
> >>However after using it a little I am somewhat puzzled as to
> it's formatting
> >>capabilities. I generated a report to output an alphabetical listing of
> >>customers and the length of the Company Name field is screwing up the
> >>format. Do the field placemarkers not allow for the *maximum*
> length of a
> >>given field to allow for proper formatting?
> >
> >Yeah, the column fomats aren't dynamic. So they can't be
> adjusted on the
> >fly. What the means is that if you have an extra long field for
> >something, it will push everything else to the next column for that
> >customer (it's either that over overlap it).
> >
> > - Shawn
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