[AccessD] Interleaving two reports

[Ryan W]

The reports differ in nearly every regard, there are some commonalities in
the page headers and the page footer always just shows page N of NN,
worrying about the page footer during the interleaving process is not of
importance. Both page header and footers repeat on a per page basis on both
reports.

The number of pages per report can differ, maximum would be 99 IDs,
possibly more than 99 pages if any of the detail section data spills into
more pages with our current config.

After I emailed this off I talked to one of the users doing the hand
interleaving and there may be a third report that is used depending on
client requirements.





On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 7:46 PM Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does each page have the headers and footers repeated?
>
> Is the format of the data in the detail section of reports 1 and 2 the same
> or different?
>
> Is the number of pages in each of the reports the same ? Can the number of
> pages in the reports vary? Maximum?
>
>
> r
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 4:50 PM Ryan W <wrwehler at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Shuffle the pages:
> >
> > Rpt 1 P 1
> > Rpt 2 P 1
> > Rpt 1 P 2
> > Rpt 2 P 2...
> >
> > I have the code to do and print to a PDF printer which can then be merged
> > quite easily, but it would be nice if I could just append each page sent
> to
> > the PDF printer to the PDF being built.
> >
> > I'll be tinkering around with Jim's idea of trying to interleave the data
> > in the report as opposed to my code loop but I didn't have luck using my
> > existing reports as subreports on a new main report (likely due to having
> > page headers, detail sections etc).  It only printed the first detail
> > section from the first subreport and not the second subreport.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 6:42 PM Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin2 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > By interleave do you mean show part of report A, then part of report
> B,
> > > then another part of report A, another part of report B, etc.?
> > >
> > > r
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 10:37 AM Ryan W <wrwehler at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can interleave two separate
> > > > reports?
> > > >
> > > > They both contain data that can be grouped together by an ID, but the
> > > > report format is different between them and at the moment my end
> users
> > > are
> > > > printing both reports to PDF and then interleaving them in the PDF to
> > > > produce the desired report.
> > > >
> > > > My current thought is somehow to use DoCmd.PrintOut and a loop to
> print
> > > an
> > > > alternating page range.  I just need to somehow ensure that if the
> > report
> > > > per ID is more than one page that gets accounted for as well.
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