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It would be great to have a report writer that would be able to use all the wonderful features you
have for building cards to build reports. In my app I have added an extra card that functions like a report
for printing or PDF but it would be great if the size could be larger somehow without changing the size of the
other cards.

Thanks,
Mike

But you could make a substack containing the report card, and open it "invisible" when printing.

Yes, it would be. The good news is that there are some options:
1) Quartam Reports, which rumor has it is being reworked,
2) If you're doing a bunch of database work, Valentina.
3) Roll something yourself using substacks - I say "ick" to this, but I say "ick" a lot.

SparkOut wrote:But you could make a substack containing the report card, and open it "invisible" when printing.

+1

I'm doing this since years for printing my invoices.

Thierry

Thierry wrote:

SparkOut wrote:But you could make a substack containing the report card, and open it "invisible" when printing.

+1

I'm doing this since years for printing my invoices.

Same here. True WYSIWYG.

Richard said:

Same here. True WYSIWYG.

Me too. There is a stability with using a card as a template, and simply printing the card, that I sometimes cannot quite get with "revPrintField" and its ilk. I have found that "revPrintField" will print from Windows on some machines, but not others. Odd. But "print card" always works.

I do miss the old HC report gadget, which was a pain to set up, but contained enormous power in its ability to use custom functions as vehicles to load data into its fields. Anyone remember that fondly?

Craig

Am I allowed to say that I miss rpControl, or whatever that reporting engine was called?

dunbarx wrote:I do miss the old HC report gadget, which was a pain to set up, but contained enormous power in its ability to use custom functions as vehicles to load data into its fields. Anyone remember that fondly?

Check out <LiveCodeBundle>/components/Unsupported/revreportsetup.rev

Looks like a nice community project just waiting to happen....

It's actually
<bundle>/Tools/Toolset/Unsupported/ in the 6.x series, I think.

I'm going to try the substack idea it seems like the simplest option for now
Thanks everyone for the advice

The substack idea worked well but how do you open it "invisible" if I open it and just don't put
and navigation to the substack card is that invisible?

Thanks I'll give it a try