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Use Data from Database

1. SelectthecommandDatabaseAccessintheDatamenu.

2. ClickontheWizardbuttonandfollowon-screeninstructions.

Thedatabasetablewillbedefinedonthelabel.

Databasefieldswillbelinkedtothespecifiedobjects.

Oncethedatabaseisavailableintheapplication,itsfieldscanbeusedwithanyformobject.

ItispossibletousevariablesinSQLasparameters.TheparametersinSQLareprecededbyasem-

icolon(:param_name).Variablesusedasparametersmusthaveadefaultvaluethatcorrespondsto

SQL(avariableusedasaparameterinplaceoftheDateFieldmusthaveadefaultvaluethatcor-

respondstoadate).DONOTchangethedefaultvaluesofvariablesusedinSQLafterdefining

SQL.Itishoweverpossible,toconnectthosevariablestoanEditBox,creatingaformthatknows

howtofilterdata.

Use Distributed Printing

Theapplicationprovidesadditionalprintingmethod.Apartfromtheregularprintingtothelocalor

network-connectedprintersitispossibletoenabletruenetworkprinting.Inthismodetheapplication

doesnotconnecttotheprintenginedirectlytoprintthelabelsbutcreatesabatchcommand.JOB

file,containingnecessarycommandstodescribethecurrentprintoperation.

The.JOBfilecanthenbeeitherdroppedonaspecifiednetworkfolderorsenttotheserverappli-

cationoverTCP/IPnetworkprotocol.

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