Subject Re: web wizard reports
From Ken Mayer <dbase@nospam.goldenstag.net>
Date Sun, 24 Sep 2017 09:21:07 -0700
Newsgroups dbase.getting-started

On 9/24/2017 2:09 AM, Akshat Kapoor wrote:
> On 24/09/2017 10:22, Ken Mayer wrote:
>> On 9/23/2017 5:18 PM, Charlie wrote:
>>> I am using web wizards to convert from a .rep to html report.  Is
>>> there a trick to this?  The report is published but is not correct
>>> structure wise.  There are four columns in the report.  The first
>>> like prints the first two columns then skips to the next line and
>>> prints the last two columns in the wrong place.  This the next three
>>> lines are correct then the error repeats.  Is this normally
>>> reliable???? Thanks
>>
>> It is likely the web wizards don't know how to deal with the structure
>> necessary for the multiple columns. They aren't very sophisticated,
>> code to convert like that is tricky ...
>>
>> I would suggest rather than using .rep files, create the code to
>> generate the HTML for the report yourself. A bit of work, but ...
>>
>> Ken
>>
>>
> Just to emphasize what Ken has said.
> A screen shot is attached.
> (I have never used this option so no idea about the result)

Even that is not a great way to go, the interpretation to HTML is often
pretty wonky ... fonts don't match, lots of spacing and formatting
issues and things don't line up well.

Ken


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