To whom it may concern:

I am designing reports for my application and I still have problems trying to position text or value boxes in a report anywhere but in the left of the screen. I have tried using both the "look" tab and clicking right, and the "position" tab to make the element wider, but both of these steps do nothing. In one of the Sesame samples, I did find the following as a programmed value:

Var vDate as String

vDate = @Date
vDate = @Right(VDate,5) + "/" + @Left(vDate,4)

Header = "<CENTER><B>Invoice Report " + vDate + "</B></CENTER>"

I redid this for my own application to the following:

LE76 = "<CENTER><B>Packing List " + "</B></CENTER>"

After playing around with this I discovered that the command I copied over positioned the Packing List in the center of the output. This is great. I see the right part of the program shut off the centering for the rest of the report. However, I did not see any reference for <CENTER><B> in any manuals. I tried to change this to <RIGHT> and it did not work. Ideally, I would like my output on one item of a programmed element and one of a text element on the right of the screen.

1. How can I achieve this?
2. Where can I find information on the <CENTER> and <B> (what does that refer to?) in the program manual?

Any input is great, I have been trying to figure out how to position text for some time now and I am not getting anywhere. I did get information from an earlier question and they told me to use the "Look" tab and label alignment tab. Again, this did not work.

Thank you!

Kevin
E & S Gage

Bob:

Thanks for the info! However, is there a way to do what I want (make text on right of screen) in the Sesame report writer?, or do I have to figure out and use this HTML code? I am not a computer programmer and I am learning quite a bit about the Sesame programming, but I still would like to keep it simple!

Thanks!

Kevin

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What section of the report are you in?
Freeform or Table/Columnar report?

-Ray

Bob:
Thanks, I tried the HTML code:
LE56 = "<p align = "right"><b>Packing List " + "</b></P> This did not work. Program editor came back with an error.

However, this worked
LE56 = "<CENTER><B>Packing List " + "<B></CENTER>"

I tried to subsitute "CENTER" with "RIGHT" and that did not work. I found the HTML code above to make stuff align to the right but I could not alter this to fit Sesame.


Ray:

I have the report with 2 sections table is in one view and freeform in the other.

Thanks,

Kevin

Ray:

I am would like the text aligned to the right in both the Report header and view header sections.

Kevin

Bob:

Thanks for the info, but like I said when I started this thread, I tried that and it did nothing. Here is what I did:
I have a Static Text element in the Report Header of a report that is labeled Packing List. I clicked this to make it active, clicked 09 for top right and saved it. I confirmed that it registered by viewing the Property viewer on the bottom left, color/text tab, and text alignment on the very bottom. Indeed it says Text alignment Top right. However, when I save this and preview it the Packing List in the Report Header still shows flush to the left.

Thanks,

Kevin

Change from this:
LE56 = "<CENTER><B>Packing List " + "<B></CENTER>"

To this:
LE56 = "<p align=right><b>" + Packing List  + "</b></p>"

Bob / Ray:

I have to leave work now. I am off tomorrow. Any input you can think of tomorrow, would be greatly appreciated. I will check the board Wed.

Thanks again for all your help!

Kevin

I have rerun the code I supplied and it tests OK.  The message might be coming from another section of code. 

Check other report elements and comment them out until the offending section is identified.  I have seen the Test Program pass , and then fail in Preview because of values that are in quotes.  The Test Program does not do syntax checking inside quotes at times, not sure when, but that is where I would start to comment out code.....sections with quotes.

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I will do that the next time I see that.  If I get a chance, I will see if I can force that to happen.  And Yes, I will do that under a separate Subject.

Its a bug. As a matter of fact, this very feature was shown in a previous version at the user's conference in Baltimore. The feature got broken when adding a different and unrelated feature. It will be fixed in 1.1.4 (already fixed it - here) and will be, as you say, as easy as pushing a button.

Hello Kevin,

If you are using the code

  LE56 = "<p align=right><b>" + Packing List  + "</b></p>" 

the <p> starts a new line.

Try the code below

LE56 = "<TABLE WIDTH=100%><TR><TD WIDTH=50% ALIGN=Left>Your Company Name</TD><TD WIDTH=50% ALIGN=Right>" + Packing List + "</TD></TR></TABLE>" 

-Ray

Hello Kevin,

You can use Sesame to make that value box's font size bigger and bolder. Select the value box, go to the Text tab of the Property Editor, Choose "Bold" from the drop down that says "Normal", And choose a font size from the drop down box that says 12. Save the layout and preview.

-Ray