bug: placing record information in title or footer

Classic Servoy
1

If you place record information in a title or header part, than this information is not correctly updated in Preview-mode!!

In you browse thru the records (in preview-mode) the record information in the title or footer stays the same.

2

placing record info in title or footer is undefined, which recorddata whould you expect if there are 20 records on a page? (it is just not possible to define)

3

I don’t agree.
In Filemaker this is possible and used in dozens of solutions.
If you have a one-record-page-view than this record data is shown in the title or footer.
If you have multiple-record-page-view (list-view) the last record on that page is shown in the title or footer.

And I don’t think I am the only-one using this feature.

Try it in Servoy, if you scroll thru the records, (in browse-mode) the footer is updated correctly. In Preview it isn’t.

4

I usually put global fields in my FMP headers (or footers). How are you using this in FMP?

I can’t really imagine a use for putting record-specific data in a header or footer… :wink:

Bob Cusick
ClickWare

5

We us it a lot.
for example with invoices, we specify record-related-info about the invoice.
like:
payment dates
garantees
etc..

for example in sub-summarys (with page-break) when you sort this by a specific record you can place this record in the title-header showing it is list of this record!

so I can go on!
Comeon! am I the only one using this? :?

In many Filemaker-solutions I have seen that this is used too.

6

Just to make sense!

7

I have had to do this in FileMaker before to get the fields to print out in the proper location for preprinted forms.

[EDIT] In FileMaker I have had to use fields in the header and footer from a specific record before as the preprinted forms the client needed to print on had totals at the bottom of the form and a date at the very top. So to get it to print in the proper place we put the field in the header and footer. So I would need this to work in Servoy.

Daniel

8

Hugh..?? :? What did you had to do?
Can you explain a little bit more?

9

The behaviour is changed as requested, will be availeble in next build