movable text without layout mode

[rogermax]

I am still not up to speed very well in V7. Does anyone know if it is possible to dynamically reposition text on a printout? With some of the new features like changing the look of the text I thought there might be a way to define where on the page it would print. (Wishful thinking?) thx.

[BruceJ]

You've still got the "Sliding Up" option for printing. I don't think you can use the text formatting options to Left Justify, Center Align, etc.

But as far as something such as either print on top left-hand corner or center of page, etc.. You've got to create calc fields that conditinally display the info based on your criteria. Of course there's multiple many ways to skin a cat and multiple calc fields is just one of them, but it's probably the most straight forward.

[Michael Myett]

You can also use repeating fields and the new "Get ( CalculationRepetitionNumber )" for your conditional calculations, along with the ability to display a single instance of any repetition to reduce the number of defined fields in your database.

[rogermax]

Thanks for the replies. I am really talking about fine positioning fields to print items within variable "forms". kind of like printig a consecutive number on a batch of forms, where every batch of forms will be totally different, and the db is used only to print the numbers.

FMP makes it very easy and fast to create the records for each form then print those numbers but without layout mode available the positioning won't work. (so far as I can tell)

[Vaughan]

"every batch of forms will be totally different"

This is a difficult situation to be in. You're going to have to limit the nomber of possibilities some how.

Once you know all the possibilities (or the range of possibilities) you can design some variations of layouts and alloww the user to select the most suitable.