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Generating the Cross Tab Reports on Printer
Article No	Q0016
Version Applicability	PERKS 2.45 and later
Last Reviewed On	June 21, 2000

SYMPTOM:

You have designed a Cross Tab Report (with 'Default Print' mode). Now, you want to print your Report. However, you observe that you can only view your Report on the screen. The Report Generation window shows the other options disabled.

CAUSE

As per the standard user requirement, Cross Tab Reports were meant to be extracted only under the Text Mode Printing, i.e., typically on Dot-Matrix Printers. The default Printing Mode of any Report being 'Graphic', such a Cross Tab Report can only be generated on the 'Screen'. Hence, other options in the Report Generation window appear disabled.

RESOLUTION

If you are using PERKS 2.50 or lower, then you can adopt the following workaround:

Modify the Page Layout of the design and set the Printing Mode as 'Text'. Then, save your design.

To print the Report on a Printer, select Reports / Cross Tab from the menu, and choose the design. Now, you will observe that the option Spool To File gets enabled.

Choose it, and specify the File name. The System will spool the entire Report as a Text File (along with its layout properties).

Open this spooled file from an Editor, and send it to print. Otherwise, from the Command Shell of the Operating System, you can send it to the Printer, e.g., from the DOS Prompt of a Win 95/Win NT (or Win 98) machine, issue the following command:

TYPE <Drive>:\<Path>\<Filename> >PRN

However, the users of PERKS version 2.51 (and upwards) will be able to take printouts directly under the 'Graphic' mode.

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