Customised Mail Label Printing.

rbuser

Requirement is the user wants to print the same message in required no of
labels in a customised label page setup etc. Actually there will be a set of
pplabels one below the other in the DetailBand, other than that the user
enters the information such as PageSize, Label Height, Label Width, No.of
labels across, Row gap, Column Gap etc. The report does not have a
DataPipeline, its a basic report with a few ppLabels and values are assigned
at run time.

I have done most part of it. But have problems with PageLimit and
DetailBand.PrintCount
Say a page can acomodate 16 labels and the user wants only 20 labels
printed.
Then DetailBand.PrintCount := 20
DetailBand.ColumnTraversal := ctLeftToRight;

Now, I say PageLimit = 0 then it prints unlimited pages, then I figured out
means of calculating the no of pages required and then to the above users
requirement u need pages but only 4 pages has to be printed on the second
page but it prints whole of the second page, why ? say if the no.of.labels
within the first page it prints perfectly, i.e.; 5 labels is required then
only 5 are printed and the rest are left. Thats fine , and the problem is
with the second page onwards.

If there are any sample codes for any problem of this nature will be a Great
Help. Thanks in Advance.

nicocizik

Hello,

I would suggest using a JIT Pipeline to pull the data from your dataset so
you will be able to control the exact amount of records that get traversed.
Also, you will want to check the DetailBand.BandsPerRecord property. This
property indicates the number of times the detail band will print for the
current record. Setting this will allow you to limit the number of labels
you print to the page.

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rbuser

There is no dataset as such, actually the user enters the values which
should be printed.

Thanks in advance

nicocizik

Hi,

Sorry, I was mistaken, the JITPipeline is an event-handler based
datapipeline used to print data from an array, TStringList, TList or any
other data structure. You may still want to use a JIT Pipeline to control
the amount of records get sent to the report. Then also be sure to check
out the BandsPerRecord property to limit the number of label you print.

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rbuser

Thanks, I used the TextPipeline with a Text file. That is I wrote the
contents of the label as a delimitted record on to a text file, and thus
same record is repeated so many times as the required labels. and thats it !
worked fine. Thanks Nico.

Regards

Moorthy
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