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  1. Hi, once connected to a database table and retrieving data, is there a way to write to each record in the table to set a flag to say that the record is printed? We have a database app which updates a table. We don't want the same records printed each time. In the event that we need a record reprinted, we could unset the "printed" flag for that record. Is this possible?
  2. Thanks Dan for looking into this. Yes, the rule described is exactly how I managed to get it to work. It meant that for each element in the footer I had to use a rule, but it does work. As this is a high frequency and high volume job, it was good that I was able to work within FusionPro to accomplish a good result. Although I use the rule to show resources and text, it's a shame that I can't use the same type of rule to show templates too. I'm just thinking that in future the client may want to add extra elements such as an "Overdue" section or a personalized cross promotion and the flexibility of templates would be ideal. Thanks again, Warren
  3. Thanks for the feedback Dan. The reason I feel the job would be fairly normal is that it is like a phone bill. First page starts with a list of the time, date, cost of your calls and the list continues for several pages. On the last page is a footer which shows the total calls, total time and total cost and a grand total of all charges. Same could apply for say a credit card statement too. This is why I thought that a ready solution would be at hand. Because of the time frame I have had to go with a workaround of showing or hiding each text and graphic box depending on whether the page is last. While this works, it may not be the most efficient. Warren
  4. Hoping someone has seen this type of problem and can provide a solution or suggest an alternative. The issue: when I use a template on overflow pages I get a composition error. I am trying to control which pages the template appears on. See test job uploaded. The job requirements: we need to output financial statements. The statements show a list of invoices and payments and the data can run anywhere from 1 to 20+ pages. On the last page we need to put a footer which shows the total amounts of invoices and payments (grand totals). It can only appear on the last page. The test job simply has a chunk of text so as to cause overflow pages. The template is page 3. I think it is about as simple as it gets and only has 1 rule. The error I get is: http://content.screencast.com/users/WMajor/folders/Jing/media/2c8d3b6a-4554-4e20-98aa-9a3f0cbea974/2014-12-03_1249.png If anyone has any ideas or suggestions, please let me know. I have also contacted support, but as I think this would be a fairly standard job requirement I would like to know if anyone else has experience with this. Thanks
  5. Although probably not going to give you the best result and I am a novice when it comes to code, here is a suggestion. It just breaks your text into lines of about 50 characters. Also, don't forget to click on the "Treat ... as tagged text" checkbox.: var vdata = "Say I have a field called 'vdata'. I imagine I'd do something like if vdata is more than 50 characters, then wrap, else leave on one line, along with some other copyfit command that will adjust the size of the type so it looks decent without going too large on the short names?"; var newstring=""; var characters=50; textstart=0; textend=characters; if(Len(vdata)>characters) { for (aloop=1;aloop<vdata.length/characters;aloop++) { breakpos = vdata.indexOf(" ",textend); textamount = breakpos-textstart; newstring = newstring + vdata.substr(textstart, textamount)+"<br />"; textstart=breakpos+1; textend=(aloop+1)*characters; } newstring = newstring + vdata.substr(textstart, vdata.length-breakpos); } return newstring; Now wait while someone amazingly converts this into a single line of regex The reducing and enlarging of text is up to the settings in FusionPro. You can accept the default or override and there are plenty of examples in the forum.
  6. Thanks Eric for your reply. I have uploaded a plan which will explain what we are hoping to achieve. The records will step across the page. The finished sheets will be one sided or two sided only depending on data. As the result is a single sheet of paper, there is no problem with finding the end of a record. We normally print via postscript with page control to set whether a page is simplex or duplex.
  7. We have a very large job to produce and we are looking to minimize the copy count and time. The data will be supplied with copy for simplex and duplex pages. The pages are A4 and we are wanting to run the job 2up on A3 paper. While this is easily handled by using an imposition file, I am wanting to ensure that duplex printing only occurs when necessary. There are 3 possible outputs: a simplex A4 page beside a simplex A4 page (should only count as a 1 copy on A3); A simplex beside a duplex (which will count as 2 copies); duplex beside a duplex. If I was to output these possibilities I should get a copy count of 5 as the first set is simplex and not duplex. The time and cost could be substantial. The data can't be split or filtered as we need to keep record sequence. I have tried using SetBodyPageUsage to control whether to use a page with duplex settings or simplex settings but the output is still actually duplexing. Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.
  8. I have a couple of suggestions. 1. think of the bar as a table with variable width cells and grey border. 2. consider the vertical bar a resource. Text + Resource + Text etc. 3. it might be possible for the text boxes to have a white background and vary the horizontal width of the box. If you put a gray filled rectangle underneath, you may get the effect you want. Hope it helps. Warren
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