RE: Soft-Coding report titles & column titles

Message files are what I was planning to use - at least for report headings.
I've used them in the past for other things and, years ago, even replicated
the concept to PC DOS apps I was building - used them for screen prompts and
reports.

Column titles is where I'm having a problem wrapping my mind around it.

BUT.... (light bulb moment!).... Maybe just one big string for the full
width of column titles. I was stuck on individuals but just retrieving line
1,2,3 as needed is probably very doable.



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On Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 9:10 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: Soft-Coding report titles & column titles

Its been a few years now, but I did use message files on a couple of
projects, for just this purpose. It took a bit to adjust my attitude to the
solution, but after the first few successes, it worked a charm. It gave
solutions to problems I didn't even realize I had.


On 8/22/2013 10:58 PM, Roger Harman wrote:

They are conditioned now. But, that is not flexible and requires program
changes for adding a new division or if a name changes. Should be
table driven but just wondering how others have dealt with it.

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