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User-Defined Date and Page Number Location

You can control the location of the date and page number on the Heading fill‑in, overriding any placement specified on the Parameter fill‑in. CA Ideal provides functions to specify the date or page number in the page heading or footing definition. The Parameter fill‑in controls the edit pattern for these functions. The functions are:

• $RPT‑DATE-Date of the report. The date value is obtained from an ASSIGN REPORT statement, if one is specified. Otherwise, the current date is used.
• $RPT‑PAGE-Page number. The page value is obtained from an ASSIGN REPORT statement, if one is specified. Otherwise, a value of 1 is used.

For example, to print the report date and page number right justified on the top of each page as the following:

                                                                   Customer List
                                                                      02/28/2006
                                                                             -1-

The Heading fill‑in contains an entry for the page heading as follows:

 =>
‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑
 IDEAL   : RPT HEADING/FOOTING   RPT CUSTRPT  (001) TEST           SYS: DOC  DISP 
                                                                                
          Field Name, Literal, Function,                   Column               
 Command  or Arithmetic Expression                         Wid Tab Edit Pattern 
 ‑‑‑‑‑‑   ‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑ ‑‑  ‑‑‑ ‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑
 ======   ==================== T O P ===================== ==  === =============
 000300   <<PH>>                                           __  ___ _____________
 000400   'Customer List'                                  __  MAX _____________
 000500   ________________________________________________ __  L01 _____________
 000600   $RPT‑DATE                                        __  MAX _____________
 000700   ________________________________________________ __  L01 _____________
 000800   $RPT‑PAGE                                        __  MAX _____________
 ======   ===================== B O T T O M ============== ==  === =============

TAB values print the heading on multiple lines. MAX right‑justifies the data.