Flagging records for print

[habitude]

Here is another of my crazy questions...

Scope: In any given day, our business office will process "x" amount of contracts. Part of this includes submitting a form to another company. This form is normally typed, and contains fields for 10 records.

I was able to replicate this form on a layout, but a problem I've encountered is limiting this list to display only the records which require submittal, instead of all records.

Given my options, I thought of using a date range, but that does not prevent the same records from showing up on the list.

Is there a way to "flag" a record, maybe a button that the user clicks to flag a record (show up on the form)? Then after that record is printed with 9 other flagged records, it "unflags" and shows the record as submitted (or dated):

(note: these records are not processed in order, some clear days or even weeks before others).

Hope my illustration makes sense! -)

Many thanks!

[cmartin]

Create a Print field and make it a checkbox with value Y. User checks those records that should be printed. Then your print script:

Enter Find Mode

Set Field(Print, "Y")

PerformFind

Replace(Print, "")

Print()

The only problem is if you are in a multi-user environment and someone else is in one of the records, the replace will fail for that record. You can either set up the print script to run at a time when there are not mutliple users OR you have to do some error checking, create an error log, and deal with those records later.

This is just one way to accomplish what you want, although many others exist.

Good luck!

Courtney