Page breaks for view as list

Panorama X
1

Is there a way to insert page breaks for printing with a long view-as-list form?

2

Or is there a way to group up and then use the summary field to trigger a page break when printing?

3

Sorry, there is currently no way to force a page break in a report generated by Panorama X.

4

Any timeline when this will happen? It was a very handy feature in Classic.

5

I second the motion.

Barry

6

I’m still waiting for it as well… :slightly_smiling_face:

tom p

7

OK I have a form that absolutely needs to force a page break after each grouping or summary. Can anyone suggest a plan of attack to do this? FYI the form prints 1 to 3 records only in each group with a common field data such as “A” or BB" etc. This was so easy in Pan 6.

8

Panorama is so customizable in so many areas that many of you probably assume that virtually anything can be customized or worked around. I take that as a compliment. However, the printed page layout is not one of those areas. There’s no way to modify the layout with a program or formula, beyond the documented features that are included.

9

Now I have not tried this in Panorama, but there is a key combination for a page break on Macs: control-q followed by control-l. It works with TextEdit. See if adding this where you want a page break will work. Let us know.

10

I’m afraid that’s not going to work. It takes a bunch of programming logic for a feature like a page break to work, and Panorama doesn’t have it. This feature is not part of the operating system.

11

I have found a workaraound, sort of. The one form that needs this usually prints 1, 2, or 3 records per page, never any more. These reflect winners in a group in 1st, 2nd, 3rd place. So, what I did was group up on one field and perform a count. The procedure then looks at the count and if it’s “3” it moves on, if it’s 1 it adds two empty records, if it’s 2 it adds one record. Maybe not the most elegant way to accomplish what I need but until Pan X has the ability to force page feeds after summaries it’ll do. Below is the procedure, if anyone has a better way to do this I’m all ears!

Field “Class”
GroupUp
Count
firstrecord
loop
If Class=“2”
uprecord
insertbelow
downrecord
Class=“3”
endif
If Class=“1”
uprecord
insertbelow
insertbelow
downrecord
Class=3
endif
downrecord
Until info(“stopped”)
openform “Result display”
Print
Dialog