Is it possible to use a multi occurance filed on a form in "newspaper" columns?
My attempt has resulted in 4 columns of the same repeating columns. Do I need to make a dynamic array?
Thanks for any help.

By my knowledge this cannot be achieved in standard Baan (unless maybe with dynamic forms this is possible...). If you HAVE to do it this way, then indeed I think the easiest way is filling an array and displaying it as required on the form. I don't know what the max. amount of records to be displayed is in reality...?

I don't know if you mean that, but in "Reports" is a field, where you can fill in a number of multi cols. So the result should be indeed to have, let's say three colums with items.
I tried it some years ago, with a little bit more complicate report... and decided to use something like an array :p

This option is not available for forms. And yes, I too have experimented with this in the past, and backed out due to the bad functionality of this feature in Baan...

Regards,
Eli Nager

This option is not available for forms. And yes, I too have experimented with this in the past, and backed out due to the bad functionality of this feature in Baan...

Regards,
Eli Nager

I agree that with a form I would use arrays or find another solution. But I have successfully created one multicolumn report and yet I agree with Eli. It is not something I would recommend.

Thanks for the help - this was all so that users could scan more barcodes without having to refresh/save after a dozen or so scans. I think the best way is to launch excel scan there save the file and read it into Baan - then they can scan all they want with less interaction.

Okay - I have actually done this two different ways. One way was for floorstock transfers - on this form I used arrays, because they would only want to transfer to 2/3 locations. They use tags from another program to scan in the inventory transfer issue. The other way I did this was using a table I set-up. Then they could scan in (or load from an excel file) as many as they needed. Once it was loaded(however they loaded it) they could process all of the records.