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Use Data from Database
1. SelectthecommandDatabaseAccessintheDatamenu.
2. ClickontheWizardbuttonandfollowon-screeninstructions.
Thedatabasetablewillbedefinedonthelabel.
Databasefieldswillbelinkedtothespecifiedobjects.
Oncethedatabaseisavailableintheapplication,itsfieldscanbeusedwithanyformobject.
ItispossibletousevariablesinSQLasparameters.TheparametersinSQLareprecededbyasem-
icolon(:param_name).Variablesusedasparametersmusthaveadefaultvaluethatcorrespondsto
SQL(avariableusedasaparameterinplaceoftheDateFieldmusthaveadefaultvaluethatcor-
respondstoadate).DONOTchangethedefaultvaluesofvariablesusedinSQLafterdefining
SQL.Itishoweverpossible,toconnectthosevariablestoanEditBox,creatingaformthatknows
howtofilterdata.
Use Distributed Printing
Theapplicationprovidesadditionalprintingmethod.Apartfromtheregularprintingtothelocalor
network-connectedprintersitispossibletoenabletruenetworkprinting.Inthismodetheapplication
doesnotconnecttotheprintenginedirectlytoprintthelabelsbutcreatesabatchcommand.JOB
file,containingnecessarycommandstodescribethecurrentprintoperation.
The.JOBfilecanthenbeeitherdroppedonaspecifiednetworkfolderorsenttotheserverappli-
cationoverTCP/IPnetworkprotocol.
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