Printing Value List

[Daniel Shanahan]

Is it possible to print a value list? I have a list that refers to itself. It's a list of topics of books we have in a small library and for promotional purposes I'd like to print and distribute this list to our clients to let them know all the topics we cover.

[markpro]

Sounds like you have a field in your database i.e. "Topic". The value list you have set up is based on this fields contents. If this is true, you simply have to create a columnar report with a "subsummary when sorted by Topic" part in place of the body. Place your "Topic" field in this part. Sort by "Topic" and print this report.

[bobsmith]

Create a Field "valueListItems" for example.

make field calculation valuelistitems("YourDB.fp5","Your Value List"

Note be sure to use "" around the database name and value list name or you

will get error message field not found.

This will give you all the items in your valuelist you can then put this field on a layout by itself and print it out.

This field will give you each value list item with a return, if you want them on one line use the substitute function to replace the