Hola a tothom,

does anybody know if it is possible change dynamically the attributes of one field from the report script. For instance: there is a field which sometimes should be printed normal and sometimes should be printed in Bold, depending on a condition.

Thanks & regards

Jordi

Hi,

You can make 2 layouts, one includes the bold field and the other one includes the normal field. Then from the code you can decide which layout to print.

I hope it helps,

- George

Thanks George,

I already thought in this solution, but my problem is that I use the option layout.again and I print the layout several times. That's why I can't have two layouts.

Thanks again

Jordi

Hi,

Another idea is to put two fields in the same layout, one bold, and the other one normal. In the script you can choose to hide the field you want.

- George

Or one field in the same layout then use the report script to determine if the field is bold or not. So the field would be a string field and contain the escape sequence for bold and the variable.

If the conditional expression is less than 60 chars then u can write an expression like this in the report layout itself .


condition ? cf$(1) & rpt.field & cf$(0) : rpt.field


Of course report script can always be used if the expression turns out to be longer by declaring one new field in report script , assigning the right expression in before layout and actually using the same in the layout .

Thanks Mark and Hitesh!!
It worked.

I was already trying something with cf$ but didn't succeed, I suppose because my report field was a double, but if I convert it to string before printing they I can use the solution that you propose.

thanks again

Salutacions