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Printing asp pages

Hello
I have a report in .asp from Dreamweaver
There is a repeat behaviour which shows 10 records, the next 10 appear on the next page and so on

Is there a way that I can get all of the records to print on their relative pages from a print command?

Thanks
John
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Not quite sure what you're asking here.  Do you mean get 10 records printed per page?

If so, you can do this in CSS.  I presume the results appear in a table?  If so, you can add this CSS style to wherever you need the page break to occur.  This example uses a table

<table style="page-break-before: always;">

Post your code if you need more help here.
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You need to find the line of code on that page that says Repeat1_numRows = 10 and change the number to -1.  That will list every record on one page.
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To clarify a little (I hope)  it is an asp page with a repeat behaviours within a table and yes a ctrl P will print what ever is showing on the page.
The repeating  lines will print,  but only the page that can be seen will print.

So if I have  more that 10 lines the remainder will appear on the next page and so will not print.
I wonder if thats clearer?
I tried this in the table
    <td><table style="page-break-before: always, width="740"  border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">  but it did not seem to make any difference.
Thanks fuzzboxer:
If I set the repeat region to -1 it gives me all records that OK
However when the file prints the second (or third etc) page the second page will start halfway through a repeated line.
It would be good to get at least a complete repeated area and preferably the top of each page (a heading printed.
Maybe the following sketch will illustrate the idea
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Heading information                                                                               |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Reapeated region                                                                                    |
| line 1                                                                                                        |
| line 2                                                                                                        |
!end repeated region                                                                                 |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
If I use <table style="page-break-before: always;">
I get a blank page printed first
If you want the site header to be printed on each page, you are going to have to set up a CSS file for printing.

However, if you are talking about printing the table headers, then you could try setting up a nested repeat to print the table headers every 20 records or so.  Using this method will not print the headers at the top of each page, though.
>> Using this method will not print the headers at the top of each page, though.

I think it could if you used:

  <tr style="page-break-after: always;">

or whatever DW uses to re-display the headers every 20 lines.
Thanks
Can you point me to any examples please?
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Thanks fuzzboxer:
I will come back to you on this.
Thanks fuzzboxer:
That is great, one small item, at the moment it prints out a blank page as the first page. Can I prevent this?
Okay, I just tested it in IE6 and I see what you mean.  It works fine in Firefox.
Here's a solution:

Put this code before the while loop:
<tr>
<th>Heading 1</th>
<th>Heading 2</th>
</tr>

Now change the mod to 30 = 29.

That should get rid of the blank page and still print your header on the first page.
Thanks so much.
I managed to get a simple page working fine but the more complicated page I need does not work.
I expect I am doing something wrong and wonwer if you can see the mistake?

I am getting an error
Microsoft VBScript runtime (0x800A01A8)
Object required: ''
/adbprod/BuildPreAssy2.asp, line 339
Code is:
I marked line 339
While ((Repeat1__numRows <> 0) AND (NOT rsPreAssy.EOF)) ' Line 339

<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%>
<!--#include file="Connections/ConnAldhaen.asp" -->
<%
Dim rsPreAssy
Dim rsPreAssy_numRows

Set rsPreAssy = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
rsPreAssy.ActiveConnection = MM_ConnAldhaen_STRING
rsPreAssy.Source = "SELECT *  FROM OperationsQ  WHERE BoatTypeName ='military36' AND OpArea =2  ORDER BY OpBoatType ASC, OpArea ASC, OpSort ASC"
rsPreAssy.CursorType = 0
rsPreAssy.CursorLocation = 2
rsPreAssy.LockType = 1
rsPreAssy.Open()

rsPreAssy_numRows = 0
%>
<%
Dim Repeat1__numRows
Dim Repeat1__index

Repeat1__numRows = -1
Repeat1__index = 0
rsPreAssy_numRows = rsPreAssy_numRows + Repeat1__numRows
%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title></title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="p7pm/p7popmenu.js"></script>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
<!--
@import url(p7pm/p7pmv12.css);
-->
</style>

<link href="Styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

</head>

<body bgcolor="#000033" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" onLoad="P7_initPM(0,12,1,-20,10)">
<table>
<%
While ((Repeat1__numRows <> 0) AND (NOT rsPreAssy.EOF)) ' Line 339
%>
<%
RecordCounter = RecordCounter + 1
If RecordCounter Mod 15 = 1 Then%>
<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="page-break-before: always;">
    <th>Heading 1</th>
    <th>Heading 2</th>
</tr>
<%End If%>
<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
    <td><%=(rsPreAssy.Fields.Item("OpName").Value)%></td>
    <td><%=(rsPreAssy.Fields.Item("AreaName").Value)%></td>
</tr>
<%
  Repeat1__index=Repeat1__index+1
  Repeat1__numRows=Repeat1__numRows-1
  rsPreAssy.MoveNext()
Wend
%>
</table>

<p>&nbsp;</p>
</body>
</html>
<%
rsPreAssy.Close()
Set rsPreAssy = Nothing
%>
Were you getting this error before making any changes?
Thanks
I think I found my mistake.
I hadnt changed recordset1 to rsPreAssy in some places.

Many thanks,

I have learned a great deal
John