Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Reporting:
Query/Results for UNIX

Horizontal menu options for the Labels module

This section presents the horizontal menu options you can use with the Labels module of Results

Define

Defines the files and fields to use for label information. When you select this option, the results you see differ depending on if there are fields defined in the Label Layout windows.

If there are no files defined in the Label Info window, the screen prompts you to select a file from a scrolling list of available files. Once you select the file, there are three ways you can lay out the fields for the labels: 1) automatically, 2) menu driven, or 3) manually.

If no fields are defined in the Label Layout window, a window prompts if you want Results to select the fields for the labels automatically. If you enter Yes, see Method 1. If you enter No, see Method 2 to select the fields yourself.

If fields are defined in the Label Layout window when you select this option, you can edit the mailing label text and fields as described in Method 3.

Method 1

If you have the label laid out automatically, you see the fields laid out in the Label Layout window. (The system places the filename next to each field to indicate the file that each one came from.) You can edit the default layout once it appears on the screen by adding fields or text. Press GET (F5 or CTRL-G) to get a list of fields to insert. Field names included in the automatic layout are set up in the Administration module.

Method 2

If you follow the menu driven process to lay out the labels, you choose the fields from a list. Again, you can add fields or text after the labels are laid out. Then you can press GET (F5 or CTRL-G) to display a scrolling list of available fields to insert.

Method 3

To bypass the list press END (F4 or CTRL-E) in the field list. Then you can press GET (F5 or CTRL-G) to display a list of available fields to insert. If you are an experienced user, you can enter field names, text, and calculations yourself. Just be sure to delimit field names with the “{” and “}” (or “<” and “>”) characters within the label layout; you can enter text directly, without delimiters.

Settings

Controls general output settings for your labels.

Choosing this option highlights the printer setting options in the Label Layout window. By selecting this option, you can assign values to the settings:

Omit blank lines

Lets you specify if you want to omit blank lines in labels or not. This option does not affect the total height of the label. It also does not affect any blank lines you leave in the layout. For example, if you leave a blank line at the top of the label, the line is always blank and not omitted. It only omits lines where there are field definitions in the layout window, but there are no field values in the record.

Copies of each

Defines the number of copies of that you want of each label.

Total height (in lines)

Determines the total number of lines that each label has from top to bottom.

Top margin (in lines)

Defines the number of lines that Results should skip before printing the next label.

Text-to-text spacing

Specifies the number of characters wide that you want each label to print. Use this field when printing multiple labels across the page.

If you are printing more than one label across and you do not set the Text-to-Text Spacing value wide enough for one label, the next label across overlaps the first label.

Left margin indent

Defines the number of characters the system should indent from the left edge of the label before printing the first left-hand label.

Number of labels across

Specifies the number of labels across to print.