_pagetotal not working on report created in 6 and saved in 8

[longda]

I have a couple of reports that were created in VFP 6 and now we are changing over to VFP 8. When I add the _pagetotal variable to a VFP 6 report and save it in VFP 8 and rebuild the .app file I get an error message when the report is ran. There error is "_pagetotal variable not found". I tested it on a couple of different reports and get the same thing. It works correctly if I create a native VFP 8 report though.

Does anyone have any ideas. I would sure hate to have to recreate all the reports as native VFP 8 just for this feature.

Thanks for any help.
Dave L.

 

[Nifrabar]

Hi,

I would suggest to copy part of your code in here to make a check possible on probably syntax-error or some like that. I had a lot of reports in VFP6 which I simply converted in VFP8 using the newly (for VFP8) _PageTotal var.

-Bart

 

[longda]

Bart,

There is no code to copy. I simply added a field on the report and put the _pagetotal variable in it. I typed it in and got an error. Then I went through the field dialog boxes and selected it from the list of system variables and I got the error again.

Thanks
Dave L.

 

[rgbean]

Dave,
Have you tried doing a:

COMPILE REPORT myreport

in VFP 8.0, before trying to run it?

Rick

 

[longda]

Rick,

No, it still did not work. I am lost as to why this happens.

Thanks,
Dave L.

 

[Nifrabar]

Dave,
Are you sure all required VFP8 files are available for your report once the application has been compiled in VFP8 ?

As you might know a VFP8 report will not run in VFP-area for VFP6. For VFP6 don't recognise the _PageTotal var.

-Bart