Hi Peter! Thanks for the reply. We use accuterm with AWForms. I do have
their current documentation - I wrote the company itself. I have asked them
also how I could do this but have not yet received an answer.
The notes in the docs say they created the vertical lines on the form with
a tool. What I want is horizontal lines between MV sets to make them easier
to read a lot of data.
Do you remember how green bar used to help readability? That basic concept.
But the line I would need would depend on how many rows of data for each
given mv entity - as a simple example take part number and description.
part number 123 could have a single short description that would fit on one
line so after part 123 then the next line would be a horizontal 'line' of
underscores or whatever. The next part may have a long description that
wraps so it would need two printed data lines before the horizontal visual
delimiter. The third part may have 4 sub valued lines of data in the
description field so it would print 4 lines of data before the visual
delimited line, etc.
I was hoping for a simple way to load this data, obviously I can code it
all but then, in this case, AWForms doesn't do any of the lifting so isn't
helpful.
Original Message:
Sent: 2/28/2023 9:36:00 AM
From: Peter Gonzalez
Subject: RE: AWForms table cells
Kathleen, we also use AWForms for our PO, Invoices, Statements, checks and a few other forms. We use version 4.8.14 (You can see your version in the the AWFORMS program). Which emulator do you use with AWForms? We use wIntegrate. I have not attempted to do what you are describing. Do you have their AWFORMS.TEST program? If not I can send you a copy.
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Peter Gonzalez
Programmer/Systems Analyst/EDI Developer
Self Registered
St. Louis MO US
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-27-2023 10:40
From: Kathleen Hambrick
Subject: AWForms table cells
Hi all, Happy Monday Morning ;)
I am looking for help with an AWForm. Hopefully some of you are pretty good at this interface. I did look through what I have as documentation and did not see this information listed but - we undoubtedly have old and incomplete docs.
We have quite a few awforms in use, and I see examples of columns in many. What I am trying to do however is to load the data into a table format such that excel would use. Namely we want the lines between the MV data vertically and horizontally. While a tab will move between cells in the created form, passing in a tab at the end of the first line did not separate the data from MV1 to MV2. There is a horizontal line at the bottom of the array, but not between each line of data.
Suggestions?? Here is what my form looks like:
PRESS_TYPE
CUSTOMER | JOB # | Due Date | Notes |
CNO | JN | DTE |
|
PART NUMBER | CHIP SIZE | RADIUS | MATERIAL RM # | COLOR NAME | HOLE SIZE | DESCRIPTION/NOTES | RM DIMENSION | PROFILE NUMBER | EXPECTED QTY | DUE DATE |
PN | CS | RD | RAWMAT | CN | HS | CUT_NOTES | RMDIM | PRONO | EQ | DD |
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Kathleen Hambrick
Programmer at Colwell
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