Author: MB Software Solutions, LLC
Posted: 2019-05-15 at 15:48:16
Thanks for the 2 cents, Kevin!
Still wanting to output these to Word documents though for end-user
familiarity. We email these documents to 100 organizations currently.
Better design would be some sort of integration into our website but
that's Version .Next.
On 5/15/2019 4:46 PM, Kevin Cully wrote:
> I've been creating my "reports" in HTML lately as a flexible, wicked
> fast way of producing output. With CSS you have great control over
> looks and layout. Images, no problem. Links, no problem. Content
> wrapping, no problem. Page breaks, no problem. The only issue is full
> control over headers and footers ... to an extent. It's what I use to
> create invoices with.
>
> $0.02.
>
> -Kevin
>
>
>
> On 05/15/2019 03:05 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote:
>> Screenshot of Word document in question (with notations for where
>> content is dynamic; some parts blurred just to protect the players):
>> https://www.screencast.com/t/vOJd9eBwPaX
>>
>> Currently, my colleague did so many of these documents MANUALLY in
>> Word. I'd pull my hair out if I had to do that, especially since
>> I've got VFP. The trick here is to dynamically enter the names for
>> each letter to an organization. Each organization can have 1:M names
>> in this report.
>>
>> The quick thought is a VFP FRX Report, using XFRX (or something else)
>> to save the output to a Word document. And given that the text above
>> the dynamic organization name and user names/emails part is static, I
>> could do it. But like you've probably encountered before, I don't
>> like to force the Line-breaks in the VFP Report Writer if I can avoid
>> it (PITA).
>>
>> So how would you produce these dynamic Word documents easily?
>>
>> Flattened cursor for this would have this structure:
>>
>> * OrgName
>> * OrgID (e.g., P0135)
>> * Name
>> * AcctType
>>
>> That's it. User would select the Yes/No values and return to us.
>> Task here is generated these 100 reports without having to manually
>> do it (and obviously avoid the human error factor).
>>
>> tia,
>> --Mike
>>
>>
>>
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