Newbie Question 3 of 2 :-)

rbuser

Same directory from below...

I need to make an index that shows the page numbers from the prior pages.
Any ideas for that...

Eric

rbuser

an index...
well i gues that you'll have to make your report 2-pass
that way you are able to 'know' what has been printed on what page
furthermore you can force a page break when the group changes
you can define for example a dummy group wich breaks on the first letter of
the company
so all companys with B start on a fresh page
in the onbreak you could code something to keep the index
when the index gets printed you could place labels and fill those labels in
the onprint event based on your index in code
thats how i should approach this ...
be sure to get familiar with the timing of events in RB, cause you don't
want double entries in your index and i have not checked this solution
the onprint event for example gets fired multiple times so that's not the
right place to code the index..
so puzzle on, you'll find the solution

Marc

digitalmetaphors

Make your report two pass and create a subreport in the summary band which
will hold the contents of the index. Build up the index while traversion the
data by using the Print events. See the demo below for an example of
creating an index.

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/tips/IndexOfContents.zip

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Alexander Kramnik
Digital Metaphors