One of FRx’s inherent limitations is that when you have too many columns to fit on a page, FRx truncates and just doesn’t print the overflow. There are no column breaks!
What to do? Well, here are two options:
- Use 2 (or more) report catalogs. The first is for page 1, the second is for page 2, etc. You can chain them, but better make sure they run for the same date. And you better build in even more accuracy checks than usual.
- Excel. Either from the catalog or from the drilldown viewer, export to formatted excel. You’ll get all your columns and then you can manage printing from inside excel.
Personally? I like option 2 Excel. Simple, practical, easy, fast. What’s not to love?
By the way, you do have some control over what comes over to Excel. Worksheet options in the catalog and drilldown viewer allow you to uncheck things like ‘print headings’ and ‘print underscore rows’. Those underscores always look awful in Excel. Turn ’em off if you want, and put Excel’s format painter to good use.
FWIW, there are column breaks built into Management Reporter.
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