Splitting fields across pages

[ddreese]

I'm pretty disapointed with the printing capabilities of FM, at first I was very confused about the sliding rules, (they're still a bit fuzzy) I was spoiled using cangrow and canshrink in MS access that does the dirty work for you.

Anyway, I'm having really annoying problems with fields splitting over multiple pages. If I have a field using a value list formatted as checkboxes it's extremely annoying to see that field split over the bottom/top of consecutive pages. I know it makes sense for large text boxes, I'm using more than a few on the printout myself, but it would be nice to have some sort of way to define fields that shouldn't be split over pages, kind of like a widow/orphan control type deal in word.

Maybe there is something like that I'm missing? Is the printing any better in FM7?

[transpower]

From FM Help:

To define page breaks and page numbering for a part:

1. In Layout mode, choose Layouts menu > Part Setup.

2. In the Part Setup dialog box, select the part, then click Change.

You can also double-click the part label on the layout.

3. In the Part Definition dialog box, specify pagination options.

The following table describes the pagination options that are available. Dimmed options are not available for the selected part type.

To Select

Start a new page before printing the contents of the selected part (for example, to print a trailing grand summary on a new page)

Page break before each occurrence.

Start a new page after printing the contents of the selected part a specified number of times (for example, to print five records in the body, and then start a new page)

Page break after every <value> occurrences, and enter the number of part occurrences that you want per page. (The default value of 1 prints one part occurrence per page.)

Reset the page number to 1 after the selected part prints (for example, to start page numbering after a title header if you want it to serve as a cover page)

Restart page numbers after each occurrence.

Allow the contents of the selected part to be split on different pages, printing a portion at the bottom of one page, and the rest on the next page.

(FileMaker Pro won't split the contents of a part across two pages unless you specify this option, or the height of the part won't fit on a single page.)

Allow part to break across page boundaries.

To keep the portion of the part that will not fit on the bottom of the page from printing at the top of the next page, also select Discard remainder of part before new page (for example, to print the information in a Notes field to the bottom of the page and truncate the rest).

Display a different background color and pattern in alternating records for the selected body part

Alternate background fill, and choose a fill color and pattern from the pop-up menus.

Note Even-numbered records use the alternate background fill specified here. Odd-numbered records use the background fill specified for the body part object. For information on setting the fill for the body part object, see Setting color, pattern, line width, and object effects.

4. Click OK, then click Done.

HTH.

[ddreese]

That seems to be for parts, not individual fields unless I'm missing something.