I have a couple layouts that include a number field which displays an
auto entered serial number. It works just fine until I press "PREVIEW"
to see how it will look when printed....there are no numbers displayed
in the field. As soon as I exit PREVIEW they reappear.

What dumb newbie thing am I missing here?

Thanks so much
Tom

aerovons has brought this to us :
First thought-- Are these fields on the page?
Go to Layout and look for a vertical dotted line showing the page
boundery or--
In Layout, View Click on Page Margins and you will see what is outside
the page.
If thats not it we might need some more details but I can't think
which.

--
John G

On Feb 16, 11:48*pm, John G <greent... (AT) ozemail (DOT) com.au> wrote:
Thanks John, yes the field is within the page margins. Just double
checked. I've enlarged the font, and widened the field to make sure
nothing simple was screwing it up. Amazing. As soon as I enter Preview
the numbers vanish, as soon as I exit, they reappear.

Stumped.

Tom

On Feb 16, 11:55*pm, aerovons <t... (AT) aerovons (DOT) com> wrote:
I've also checked and in field attributes, "Hide When Printing" is NOT
checked...
T

On Feb 17, 12:04*am, aerovons <t... (AT) aerovons (DOT) com> wrote:
OK more info.

This field is in a table.

The table has several layouts. Two are in question.

The "Project" layout has the field (number, serial, auto entered).
When going to PREVIEW, the serial number disappears.
When choosing "Save/Send Records As" and choosing PDF, the resulting
PDF DOES show the serial number.

Go to second layout (an invoice layout). This layout has the SAME
field, in fact it was copied and pasted from the PROJECT layout.

Again, nothing in Preview.
But this time, NOTHING upon printing the PDF either.

FM 11, Mac.

Amazing.

"aerovons" <tom (AT) aerovons (DOT) com> wrote

On Feb 17, 12:04 am, aerovons <t... (AT) aerovons (DOT) com> wrote:
Try temporarily stretching the field wider or changing the font it uses -
maybe there's a font glitch causing problems. This can be espcially true if
you're viewing the layout at any zoom level other than 100% since font
spacing doesn't scale very well and "what you see may not be what you get".

Try putting a new version of the field on the layout(s) from scratch (not
copy-pasting the existing one). Also try putting the field on another
layout.

Try copy-pasting a field that does work and changing it to be the problem
field.

Check that there is nothing layered above the field (you may also need to
ungroup the item). For example, there may be a box drawn around the field as
a border which is showing up as set to print, but the field below may be set
to non-print - when you click you may be selecting the box rather than the
field.

Helpful Harry )

On Feb 17, 12:32*am, "Your Name" <your.n... (AT) isp (DOT) com> wrote:
This is a new DB with only a few test records, so I deleted them all
and made some new ones. Now everything works. Go figure

Thanks
Tom

In article
<77ac00e8-7f13-42c8-b9bf-61bfc618fe13 (AT) j9g2000prj (DOT) googlegroups.com>,
aerovons <tom (AT) aerovons (DOT) com> wrote:

Ah, that information probably gives the answer to your problem.

It sounds like you've got the field in a Header / Footer / Summary section
of the layout or are using a Summary field.

When in Browse mode a normal field is showing data from the current
record, but when in Preview or Print mode it may be displaying data from
the FIRST record in the Found Set, which probably didn't have any data in
that particular field.

If it's a Summary field, then it's likely the records were not sorted in
the correct order for the Summary field / part to summarise.

Helpful Harry )