Fancy Page Numbering in Reports

I learned a new trick for numbering report pages in ZonePro. If you want to set up your page numbering so it reads something like "Page 1 of 5", it's now easy to do. To do so, create a field box in the Page Footer band of any report and add the following expression: "Page " + TRANS(_PAGENO) + " of " + TRANS( _PAGETOTAL)

When you add the _PageTotal variable to a report, the report actually runs twice in order to figure out how many pages will be in the total. This will add a very slight delay to the running of reports that use this option but you probably won't notice. I will also add this trick to the Tips & Tricks section of our web page.

Mind Your Backups

I've talked about this topic before but it always bears mentioning: Make sure you are backing up your ZonePro files properly. You should backup your ZonePro files weekly at a minimum. Periodically test your backup to make sure that the ZonePro folder is included and to verify that you can restore it. We've just had another incident where a customer thought they were backing up ZonePro only to discover too late that the \ZP32 folder wasn't included in the backup routine. Remember, an easy way to make quick, fool-proof copies of ZonePro is just to burn the whole \ZP32 folder onto a writable CD.