[AccessD] Interleaving two reports

[Borge Hansen]

This is how I would approach it:
Main report with two sup reports and grouping by ID
Turn off headers and footers in the access report, just concentrate on the
data and the interleaving.
Place header and footer information in a Word Template document.
(Any other “header” info could be placed as group header)
Add new page code after each sub report.
Output the access report to RTF document.
Insert RTF document into Word Template document and save as .docx
Perform any post processing in .docx document
Save final product as PDF document.

/Borge

PS depending on circumstances consider creating VBA Word macro for any post
processing that is repeatable.
For example we have one app where the client is doing a lot of post
processing in Word after having output the Access report to RTF. As we
can’t add rich text in a paragraph and retain the rich text in a RTF
output, the client is using our own markup code for bold, underline and
italics during text input in the Access app. Before output to RTF we check
that the home spun markup codes contain both the start end end code (for
example /b and /nb as start and finish for bold text within a paragraph).
Applying a number of Word VBA macros we clean up the whole document to
present with added formatting in final Word / PDF output.
(We have a separate Word document - holding all VBA macros that the Acess
app RTF report outputs are using - that we attach to the Word docx prior to
post processing and detach afterwards.)



On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 at 12:01, Ryan W <wrwehler at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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