Thursday 26 November 2020

An important definition in 'HTML documents'

I had occasion today to program an 'HTML document' that enables me to document (no pun intended) an interface that reads an external file. A standard report exists that lists the fields defined in the interface but there is no means of extracting the SQL part of the interface, which is the more interesting part that requires documenting. Hence the HTML document.

As usual, I was faced with the problem of how to remove the frame around the document's header. I can never remember how to do this so I am documenting it here. In the report that contains the header, one goes to the 'HTML definitions' son form and looks for the field '# Page Columns'; this will probably be the first field in the third tab. This should be set to 1.


Another field that is useful in this son form is 'Show Title? ' - this should be set to D when one wants the report's title to be displayed and left empty when one doesn't want the title. Normally reports that display a table should have their title displayed, whereas reports that show comments or similar should not have a title.

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