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Mon, 27 April 2009 06:08

AJM
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If you only wish to make minor adjustments to the report layout you have the followng options:

You can modify the contents of $GLOBALS['report_structure'] before it is processed. You can do this in the _cm_initialise() method.
You can replace the report structure file before it is processed with code similar to the following:
```
$GLOBALS['report_structure'] = getReportStructure ($filename);
```
You can do this in the _cm_initialise() method.
If you wish to have a separate task for each different layout, but you wish your users to access a single controlling task which then decides which actual task to use, then you need to create a controlling task which does the following:
- It has no dialog with the user, so there is no screen to display and no need to wait for user input. It does what it does, then terminates.
- After identifying which actual reporting task needs to be executed it needs to switch to that task.
This can be done as follows:
- You can use a pattern such as ADD4 or UPDATE4, but tell it not to insert or update anything by returning an empty array from the _cm_pre_insertMultiple() or _cm_pre_updateMultiple() methods.
- You can switch to another task by using the append2scriptSequence() function.

I hope this helps.

		Dynamic Task Selection By: gpatti on Sat, 25 April 2009 07:29
		Re: Dynamic Task Selection By: AJM on Sun, 26 April 2009 05:43
		Re: Dynamic Task Selection By: gpatti on Sun, 26 April 2009 07:47
		Re: Dynamic Task Selection By: AJM on Mon, 27 April 2009 06:08
		Re: Dynamic Task Selection By: gpatti on Mon, 27 April 2009 06:27

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