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

Chapter 7
Report Cards Report Writer
Standard Codes for Reports in Report Card Report Writer
Code
~EMPTY~
Skips the next line
if it is blank
~TS####~
Tab for fixedlength
exports
~TAB~
Tabs text
~MOVEY:#.#~
Alters the vertical
print position
~REM~
Ignores all the
code and text in a
line
~ENDPAGE~
Starts a new page
Description
If the Report Writer code on the line below an ~EMPTY~ code does
not contain an entry for a student, the line will be skipped. This
code is used to skip blank lines in mailing labels.
Tabs over the designated number of character spaces to the right
(#### being an integer). For example, consider the line of code:
~FN~~TS23~~LN~. The last name will print in the 24th position. If
the first name is less than 23 characters, trailing spaces will be
added. If the first name exceeds 23 characters, the name will be
truncated.
Produces a tab in the Report Writer for tab-delimited exports.
Use this code to move all the code and text below it up or down the
designated number of inches (in decimals) on the report. For
example, ~MOVEY:0.33~ will move the print position a third of an
inch. ~MOCVEY:-0.25~ will move the print position up 1/4 inch. In
addition to giving you more control of the printing position of each
line of a report, this code will allow you to print more than one font
per line, as well as text upon text.
Used to insert text into the body of the report that will not be printed
on the report or read by the report writer as code. (i.e., ~REM~print
courses 010-060, positioned to the right of an
~AdvancedSpecStart=1~ code could be used to indicate that this
part of the report will print courses 010 to 060, without affecting the
actual printing of the report.) The ~REM~ code must appear
BEFORE the text being “ignored”.
Whenever the Report Writer encounters an ~ENDPAGE~ code,
the report will move to the beginning of the next page.
~ENDPAGE~ codes are commonly used in Search Headers so
that each found search category starts on a new page.
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