Create Reports - Part I

Create Reports - Part I

Report generation should be easy to generate: “Where can I see a list/report of an Engineer's jobs?”

The Start Date and End Date Fields in the Report Criteria should allow the User to whittle down the Report to a specific period

When looking for an engineer/operative in a certain area, Postcodes to help with filtering the lists of candidates

22/02/2013

Menasche Scharf

Ask FileMaker why the following didn’t work: Created a new Merge Variable “$$TotalPages” as part of a Script "Total Page Count", to display the total number of pages in a Report/Certificate, when it will be Previewed or Printed out, so that it shows “Page # of ##” – Syntax: Page {{PageNumber}} of <<$pp>>.

See: http://forums.filemaker.com/posts/7b1d4b895b

04/02/2013

Menasche Scharf

Ask FileMaker: page numbering How to set Dynamic Page Numbers – “Page x of xx”?

See:

http://help.filemaker.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3629/~/printing-total-number-of-pages-with-a-script

https://community.filemaker.com/thread/165436

06/05/2015

Menasche Scharf

Ask FileMaker - The New Layout/Report Dialogue box in FileMaker Pro 13 shows three options: Computer, Touch device, Printer. 

Why does the Printer option not have a default Layout for a plain A4 (Letter) Layout?

The Layout/Report assistant is used to give you several pre-set options for how you want the layout you create to appear to the user.

The options under "Printer" are meant for layouts that are primarily intended to be printed: envelopes, mailing labels, etc.

If you want a "plain" layout, choose the "Computer" option.

Those layouts can still be printed; just arrange the fields and other objects on the layout in the way you want them to print. 

In any case, the size of the page is not set from the Layout/Report assistant.

It's set in the Page Setup dialog, accessible from the File menu.

See: http://help.filemaker.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/6175

=== Some of the report ideas in the blog (search “report”) were copied from the http://www.bizbasics.net/biz3.html feature list - not all are relevant ===