Report &= Report1 - C6 Clarion Templates

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I have a C6 Clarion template application in which I want to use the “People.App” technique of assigning the Report definition another report definition. i.e.

Report &= Report1

This is working well, the report generates and previews perfectly, but…the application hangs when I return to the calling procedure. It just shows a wait cursor.

Since this is a Clarion template application is there something extra I need to do when the report is finished with?

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Report &= ''
CLOSE(Report)

Seems to have fixed it?

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The delay could be about the deleting of the wmf files. Test if Close(Report) is SLOW on your System? – Mine 100x slower than C6

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I’m guessing you have some un-deleted temp files as a result of that :slight_smile:

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Thanks Jeff, I don’t understand why deleting temp files would cause it to hang? (It’s a 1 page report) Do you think it might be trying to delete non-existent temp files?

I don’t know why report &= ‘’ would fix it either, if it has?

But I haven’t investigated what’s in the temp folder, yet.

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Sorry, Geoff - Didn’t notice the C6 part.

But I suspect the &= ‘’ is not an actual fix.

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Is your actual report generated by the templates?

It could it be possible that the report is already closed by the template.

What does STATUS(Report) show, before dereferencing? status_return_file_status_.htm [Clarion Community Help]

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Thanks Jeff, The original “report” is template generated and the CLOSE(Report) is template generated.

Setting Report &= ‘’ before, or after, the CLOSE(Report) prevents the procedure from hanging.

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What is the scope of the declaration of your &REPORT reference variable? Is it in the same place as the actual report (e.g. within the report PROCEDURE) or is it global or other?

I’ve seen occurrences where a global reference assigned to a non-global “thing” went wonky when the non-global “thing” no longer existed.

Are you sure the hang is within the report PROCEDURE, or could it be after the procedure exited, leaving your global &REPORT pointing to a no-longer-valid piece of memory?

Just grasping at straws :slight_smile:

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Yeah, thanks again Jeff, all input is valuable since I’m in the dark :grin:

I’m basically doing what David Bayliss does in the supplied People.app, except that is done using ABC templates and I’m stuck with Clarion templates. I was actually surprised it worked at all, but it is!

All the reports are declared in the local data area, I’ve now got 3 additional reports declared straight after the original which is designed within the template designer.

I’ve not observed any bad behaviour after assigning Report &- ‘’, and yes, it is hanging in the report procedure without that line of code.

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And the &REPORT is where?