Printing portals - sub-summaries

[Jacob]

I've got a layout with three different portals. There are three different tables that contain customer information, the main layout contains the customer's name and contact info. I've related everything together with unique ID numbers, and my layout with the portals works fine. The problem is when I go to print. The portals don't print well, especially when they break across page boundaries. I can set up a layout with sub-summaries that will display the records from any of the three related tables, but can't seem to figure out how to get all three on the same report sorted first by customer, and then by table.

[Lee Smith]

Hi Jacob,

It is usually a good idea to print your reports directly from the files were the data resides, as portals are really not meant to be printed from.

As you might imagine, there has been many discussion about this topic in the past, and if you were to do a search for the keywords of portal, printing, etc. you would find a lot of reading about it. There are some suggestions for workarounds in them, but I can't recall which ones they are.

I usually search for my keywords as AND, to do this you need to include the plus sign with them. (i.e. +portal +print +problem), I also seem to get a better result when I use the singular of the word, such as print instead of printing.

HTH

Lee