Page Setup doesn't save with layout

[Andrew_Hobson]

Hello,

I have a FM database on a MacOS 10.4.11 served with Fm Server 8.0v4. The clients are also on MacOS 10.4.11 but use FM Pro 8.5.

The problem is if I set the Page Setup for a layout (Paper Size, Orientation) it isn't saved with the layout. Each time I reconnect to the database and print the layout, I must change the Page Setup.

Is there a solution to this problem?

How do you save this information in a client/server environment?

Thanks for the help.

Andrew

[bcooney]

Page Setups aren't layout specific, that's the big aha moment! Page Setups are File specific. So, you're switching Page Setup for the entire solution.

The answer is to write a script that Prints the layout. The script will contain the Page Setup script step, and settings can be saved and restored.

That being said, it is buggy. See the FMI KB.

[Andrew_Hobson]

Hello,

Thanks for your reply.

May I ask you to point me to a specific FMI KB that relates about these problems?

Thanks and Best Regards.

Andrew Hobson

Champagne, Switzerland

[bcooney]

Start with KB 6175.

However, you may not have a problem. Are you scripting the print?

[Andrew_Hobson]

Hello,

Well, here is the situation.

This new customer gave me a contract work to put his single user FileMaker 5 database onto a server with FM Server 8 and FM 8.5 clients.

One of the database user is now complaining that she needs to change each time to A5 horizontal each time she prints this particular form.

So my question is:

The "Page Setup" is global to the database from version 1 of FileMaker? Or is it something new since the server version?

And to reply to your question: No, I am not encountering printing scripts problems for now because I haven't started using them...

For my end user perspective, she is telling me that for her, printing from a script or having to change the printer settings is the same "trouble". So for now, I'm not going to change it.

But for my personnal understanding of FileMaker, I was very glad to learn what you told me!

Thanks in advance for replying to my questions in this e-mail!!!

Andrew Hobson

[bcooney]

"The "Page Setup" is global to the database from version 1 of FileMaker? Or is it something new since the server version?"

Not new. Page Setup has always been file specific.

As you'll see in FMI's KB, print setup restore was buggy and supposedly fixed in FM10.