PageCount on Reports

Ric91

Hallo all

Is it possible to have a page count function while preview or printing an report?

For requirements of a tax office we need to print something like "Page 1 of 12" at the page header.
The only thing we can find is PAGENO which shows the page number.

Thanks in advance for any help or hint.

Best regards
Ric

sabato

G'Day

No its not possible in Navision.
If somebody got a solutuion for this please contact me. But as far as I know it is impossible.

Ric91

Thanks for your answer sabato.

If you hear or read any hints please let me know!

Regards
Ric

Marco_Ferrari

Print the preview, then add a label with the total number of pages you have read from the preview itself...



Just kidding...!! You cannot.

Marco

Ric91

ROFL Good idea Marco

Maybe something more useful before Xmas?

Regards
Karsten

;-)

Marco_Ferrari

Someone decided to fix the number of records to print in a page, then count the records and so you can know how many pages you will have, but this is not so precise, particullary if a user can change the orientation or the page format before printing.

It is not possible to know the total number of pages because of the report engine. Navision a/s (now Micorsoft Business Solution...) had to completely change the structure of the object in order to implement that functionality, so they never do anything. In Italy we had a great problem during the localization because of this problem but we didn't do anything...

Nice Christmas,
Marco

Rabe

Hallo,

I've found a way to do this but please note that this is only a work around and I suggest you only do this if the client is really not willing to budge on the page counter issue.

If you look at Report 405 you will notice that they inserted a Copy Loop before the Page Loop. Now one way would be to force the system to do a exstra copy loop and on the first Copy loop count the number of pages but do not display the sections of the report. On the second loop you would then display the Total Page Counter combined with PAGENO.

Hope this helps

Best Regards

Ric91

Hello Rabe

Thank you very much for the information.
We will have a look at this and try to use this solution too.

We have to do this because of a national law in europe we had to print the total number of pages on each official paper.

Crazy things...

Regards
Ric

Marco_Ferrari

The problem of the Official Paper is the same as Italy. During localization in 1998 (with the contribution of Navision a/s) we solved that problem simply by creating a new report that printed only the heading of the pages of the official book (the user select the total number to page before printing). Then when a company has to print the book, they must print it on the pages prevouisly printed with that report.

If you have an Italian Database you can see the report 12111.

I know that is a really not fantastic solution, but was the only one to satisfy the financial lows!

Bye,
Marco

Ric91

Hello again

Unfortunately we haven't an italian version of the DB.
Is it possible to explain explain exactly what the solution in Italy is?

We have lots of problems now with our french branch and the french fiscal authorities because of the pagecounter. We need a solution there urgently. So every help is very welcome!

Maybe we have some french readers here too?

Thanks in advance for all your help!!!

Best regards
Ric

StephenG

Hi

This is one of the most asked questions in the world of Navision.

Try this thread
http://www.mbsonline.org/forum/topic.asp?Topic_ID=4149

Ric91

Many thanks for the hint!!!!

Our programmer is out of office this week. Now i try to prepare a soution best as i can.
Can someone explain how to run a report two times? What to do and where?

I'm so thankful for all your help!!

Regards
Ric