On May 6, 9:32 pm, Buckbuck <buck.matthe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On May 6, 5:59 pm, "Guy" <g...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>
>
> > Not sloppy but precise... ;-)
>
> > Guy
>
> > "Buckbuck" <buck.matthe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>
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>news:6fdcdc03-30b1-4e11-841c-a7e526edb8ae@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > On May 6, 6:43 am, "Guy" <g...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > > A safer way is to script so the desired record is the only record,
then
> > > you
> > > can script a preview of the record for verification.
>
> > > Use a dialog box to OK PRINT, or CANCEL.
>
> > > Your script can also set the print setup.
>
> > > "Ursus" <ursus.k...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >news:48201650$0$13328$dbd4f001@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > "d-42" <db.****s...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> schreef in bericht
> > >
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> > > >> On May 5, 3:40 pm, Buckbuck <buck.matthe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > >>> FM8.5
>
> > > >>> I have a table INVOICES which currently has 164 records. I have
an
> > > >>> Orders layout Ex****ting layout both based on this same table.
>
> > > >>> If I am on the Orders layout (no found set), say record 43, and
I go
> > > >>> to the Ex****ting layout I see the same record. But if I go to
print
> > > >>> this visible record (I don't use the word Current here since I
do not
> > > >>> think this is the current record), it does not print the visible
> > > >>> record, rather it prints record number 1. The same is if I enter
> > > >>> Preview mode.
>
> > > >>> How do I tell FM to print the visible record or how do I make it
the
> > > >>> current record?
>
> > > >> Try printing the current record and see if that gives you what
you
> > > >> want. Based on what you are describing I think it is.
>
> > > >> -dave
>
> > > > Which you do by selecting the record you need printed, going into
print
> > > > (CTRL-P on windows). Then at the top of the print dialog, click on
the
> > > > drop-down menu to select 'Current Record'.
>
> > > > Keep well, Ursus
>
> > Neither File Menu - Print, or script functions Print or Print Set Up
> > give 'current record' options for printing. Lets refine the problem to
> > writing a script. How can I make sure the printed record is the record
> > being viewed? Now, I perform a 'Find' on a particular of the record,
> > hopefully giving me a found set of 1. Then I print, From Page 1 to
> > Page 1. But this all seems very sloppy and hardly what Filemaker is
> > about.
> > Thanks
>
> I don't know what to say. In my FM 8.5, under Scriptmaker, under
> heading 'Files', function 'Print', specify - Print options - there is
> no option as in Print Records being browsed or current page, as there
> is in, under heading 'Records', 'Save Records as PDF', then under
> 'specify option' there is a 'Records being browsed' option. I am at a
> lost to explain this.
Take a few screenshots of the different dialogs and host them
somewhere and post some links here. Hopefully that will clear this up.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
-Dave
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