[Dxbase] Report problems.

[Joe Wilkowski]

Jim, you are absolutely right.   And, what really upsets me is I looked at 
that export feature when I did the form and never bothered to expand the 
output form combo box.  I saw the comma delimited choice that comes up as a 
default and mentally discarded it as not something I was interested in.

Anyway, I had since tried other reports so I really wiped out the 
information from that original report.  I will not do that again you can be 
assured of that. (meaning I will not tell it to mark the records as 
"submitted" until I am absolutely 100% positive that all the data is right) 
also thanks to you I can now see there is a path back if you accidentally go 
brain dead at the last min...

Thanks again Jim...

73's

/joe k8fc
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Preston" <jpreston1 at cox.net>
To: "DXBASE" <dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Report problems.


> Joe,
>
> The most recent report you generated is still there. While you are in the 
> DXCC Award Submission module, just click on QSO Form. This will bring up 
> the report. While you have the report on the screen, click on the icon 
> that looks like an envelope with a red down-pointing arrow. This will 
> allow you to save the report in a variety of formats.
>
> 73,
>
> Jim N6VH
>
>
>
>
>
> Joe Wilkowski wrote:
>
>> When you use the Tool Awards>DXCC and then the wizard to gather all the 
>> stuff since your last submission, it creates worksheets, front sheet and 
>> the actual sheet that you send in.  Unfortunately, I cannot see anywhere 
>> that the report is permanently stored and once you close the window you 
>> have to regenerate the report.  This is where the rub is at least for me. 
>> I mistakenly told it to mark all the records it picked as valid 
>> submission records and blithely went on my way.  Well guess what, there 
>> were a number of errors in the cards selected because of various reasons. 
>> This resulted in a number of cards that were not really valid.  Now I 
>> cannot generate a new set of forms because I told it to mark them.  I 
>> have since corrected each abnormal QSL on an individual basis so the log 
>> is right but I have no access to a report that I can edit.
>>
>> So, shame on me but I would request that when that particular wizard 
>> generates a form/report that you have an option to store it under a 
>> different name.  That's all..
>>
>> I can fix this by going in and marking the special field of each record I 
>> want to submit with some unique designator and then generate a report 
>> using one of the report forms (txn Joe) which would then give me the data 
>> I want in the proper format but that is a lot of work.  It would have 
>> been much easier if I could have just recalled the original report for 
>> editing.
>>
>> /joe k8fc
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