Administrator's Plus Report Cards Manual - Rediker Software, Inc.

Report Cards Report Writer
View/Edit Letters/Reports
Option
1 Student Per
Phone #
Fixed Length
Fields
ASCII
Description
The 1 Student Per Phone # setting, used primarily for letters and
labels, causes the report to print for only one sibling per family.
The Fixed Length Fields setting is designed for reports that print data
base fields in columns. From the Data Base Plus Address program,
you may set the maximum number of characters that will print for
each of the 160 possible data base fields. With Fixed Length Fields
turned on, columnar reports will have enough room to accommodate
this maximum character length. Therefore the columns will line up
evenly. Data that is longer than the fixed length will be truncated.
Data that is shorter than the fixed length will be padded with spaces.
In other words, the data inserted into a report from a particular data
base field will take up the same amount of pre-defined space for
every student, no matter how long or short the entry. With the fixed
length setting off, you may line up columns using the Tab Report
Writer codes (for example, ~T4.25~).
Checking ASCII displays the following the window. The path and
filename must be entered in the format shown. You can either type in
or browse to the folder to which you want to export the file. If you
select Overwrite, and if a file with the same name exists in the
destination folder, the existing file will be replaced with the new one.
If you select Append, if a file with the same name exists in the
destination folder, the new information will be added to the end of the
existing file. To save the report to a floppy disk, enter a:\ on this line.
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