Labels With A Header/Footer

[Stephen Martin]

MacOS 10.14.4
TAP 5.3.7 (Build 1819)

Trying to create a print form with a Roster. Needs a header. Labels format vs List format.
– Multiple records can only be printed using the “Labels” (Design For:) option.
— Don’t see a way to add a header to a custom labels layout.

Q) Can a child layout (print) incorporate a parent layout (labels)?

Thx.

[Brendan]

Hi Stephen,

The labels layout doesn’t support a header or footer.

Perhaps the Table of Records layout might be suitable for what you need. Although the layout is not as customizable as the labels engine.

I’m not 100% sure I understand the second question about child layouts incorporating a parent layout. Custom layouts can be joined together using the “Print Next Layout” option. So you can print the first layout with the record, then print the next layout for that record, then move on to the next record and the first layout again, and so on.

Thanks,

Brendan

[Stephen Martin]

Thanks, Brendan.

P1) I have to meet a form design, so the list mode (Table of Records) won’t work for me.

P2) I had not figured out what the parent/child relationship and capabilities were, so you’re description answered my question. Thanks.

The only way I can get to my need then, is to use pre-printed forms with the headers; then print the labels layout or vice-versa. Thx.

[Brendan]

Yup, that’d work.

[Stephen Martin]

For my header layout pre-printed form, I added a “Date Now” calculated field, and put in the TODAY() function.

It’s yielding the date and the time. How do I get it to just yield the date? Thx.

[Brendan]

You will want to set the Date Format to one of the numeric formats. And set the Time format to unspecified.

Alternatively you can use the DATE() function which will let you specify your own date pattern and return that as a Text value.

[Stephen Martin]

Thx. Haven’t found the syntax for specifying a pattern, but will look further for it.

[Brendan]

In the online user manual for the Calculation field there’s a link to the following page which describes the patterns you can use:

http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-31/tr35-dates.html#Date_Format_Patterns

[Stephen Martin]

OK, I give up.

DATE(NOW() ;”yyyy-MMM-dd”)
and
DATE(TODAY() ;”yyyy-MMM-dd”)

are yielding…

December 31, 1969 at 7:33 PM

…no matter what I do.

HELP!

[Stephen Martin]

Hmmm…

What didn’t work, now does.

DATE(TODAY(); “ddMMMyyyy”)

Space req’d between (); and ” ???

Well, anyway…

[Brendan]

Hmm… I usually put a space in there anyway.

Are you returning Text for that field?

[Stephen Martin]

Are you returning Text for that field?

YES

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