OK. Meanwhile, until we add this particular way to put multiple records on a page, there are ways already in Sesame to do this, including PrintString and FreeForm reports.

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Sesame can format output to print in the boxes on preprinted forms with a precision, flexibility and level of control that far exceeds Q&A's. The SBasic PrintString command allows you to place any piece of text (including calcuated values that don't appear on your Form) in any position on a page you want using precise coordinates. Nobody needs to tweak HTML and you are not limited to Q&A's definition of a "line".

Incidentally, 1.0.5 greatly increases the capabilities of reports. After the presentation at the Conference, several previous naysayers changed their opinions on Sesame reports. We showed how to easily do most of the things people have been complaining about (the exception being page headers), and we built about 20 formatted reports from scratch right in front of everybody in under an hour, while still taking the time to describe them.

As to HTML, Sesame produces HTML output. It does NOT require YOU to write HTML  unless you want to do something very fancy or special, at which point, it allows you to do so. For normal reports, you just drop the values you want into the report.

Thanks Erika. I will now have to learn how to use the SBasic PrintString command.  I hope that you are not getting annoyed at educating novices like me.

I have another question about report formatting.  When I do a break in order to group a list of names, (same client with several records),  the header prints above each break. Is there anyway to supress printing of the header after the initial time it prints at the top of the page?

In 1.0.4, you can also simply blank the LEs that are in the group header after they have printed the first time, using SBasic. They will then still provide a break, but will only appear once. Not as good a solution as those available in 1.0.5 (multiple groups), in that it takes a little bit of programming (about 4 lines code, plus one line for each LE in the header).

Those 4 lines of code can be found in the sample application at http://www.lantica.com/Forum2/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=samples;action=display;...

You declare a Global Static in Global code

Stat gsSetLabels as Int
gsSetLabels = 0 

Then in the on print event of one of the static text elements in the group header goes code like the following

If gsSetLabels = 0 Then
{
gsSetLabels = 1
}
Else
{
//clear the labels to a space
Label(myLabel, " ")
}