Re: Help need on informix report

Billy Wheeler (bw000001@pixie.co.za) wrote: : Two things: : 1. Upgrade. This (if memory serves) is a bug that was fixed in 4.something... : 2. Try "AFTER GROUP OF order_num : SKIP TO TOP OF PAGE" : (But that's clutching at straws... :) Another possibility for work-around is: BEFORE GROUP OF order_num NEED xx LINES Where xx is the number of lines in the body area of the page (Page length - top margin - header lines - footer lines - bottom margin) Which is the equivalent of "SKIP TO TOP OF PAGE" (except you don't skip a page on the 1st page), and I seem to recall it working better at "clean" page breaks. ======================================================================= Dennis J. Pimple dennisp@informix.com Opinions expressed Principal Consultant -------------------- are mine, and do not Informix Software Inc Voice: 303-850-0210 necessarily reflect Denver Colorado USA Fax: 303-779-4025 those of my employer. : HTH. : >This program is OK for most of orders, but if the number of items : >for one order reach some point, say 36 items total, then the program : >will print this order on the first page, and print this order_num on : >next page with next order information on it. : -- : Cheers, : Billy. : ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- : billy.wheeler@pixie.co.za +27 11 803 2151 : p.o. box 3463, rivonia, rsa, 2128 +27 83 250 2324 : i'm schizophrenic: my opinions are not those of me : ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ======================================================================= Dennis J. Pimple dennisp@informix.com Opinions expressed Principal Consultant -------------------- are mine, and do not Informix Software Inc Voice: 303-850-0210 necessarily reflect Denver Colorado USA Fax: 303-779-4025 those of my employer.