Re: Re-ordering fields in a PF

No sales prices in thay PF? So, you work on fixed prices, no bonus, no
reductions.

In that case, I would sort the items at order entry, before writing to the
PF. At that time you know the prices. for this I use a contagious array.

With regards,
Carel Teijgeler

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On 3-12-2008 at 6:57 Adam West wrote:

HI Yesterday problems were solved thank you!

OK, I have this file that is a customer order file, with each record

holding up to 5 items. Currently, some of the items are free, that is, you

buy a certain $ amount, you get a choice of a free item from 2 model

groups. There is also a 'discount code' of 0002.

When it prints as an invoice (which is actually used as the pick ticket),

it shows by the 5 items ordered in the file, item1, item2, etc.

The packers would like to see the free items at the end rather than at the

begining. It so happens that the models for free are low order, altho not

the lowest, we have some that start with A. so they come first but in most

cased the free items, are listed first.

The reason they want this order is that when they are printed they can

simply tear off the first say 40 pages are a certain model type etc.

Orignially this print program printed by invoice number and I was able

enhance this to at least print by model number which is fine except for

the free ones.

I tried putting in matching dummy fields in the file and putting a Z in

front of the free ones, but this did not work bec. the order comes

out in the program as item1, item2.etc

Now I am thinking the only way is to re-order the item1-5. If I have a

free one, put it last.

But I am not sure of the best coding technique to do this. I have a hokey

idea which is usually not the best way.