Making custom File Header labels load only in specific programs.

I am not entirely sure how to tell it not to use the header label if you put a report label command in your program, but you can always right click on the duplicate header and click "hide selected label" and save that as a custom report. I'm sure there is a different way to do this, I'll play with it more.

OK. I did successfully hide the default header. Still trying to figure out how to save it as a custom report after doing that. And do I still need to load that custom report every time I load the program. I don't want an operator to have to do ANYTHING other than load the program and run it. How I miss the days of MLB, MMAX and VB6....

PRINT/REPORT,EXEC MODE=END,$
TO_FILE=OFF,AUTO=1,AUTO OPEN=OFF,$
TO_PRINTER=OFF,COPIES=1,$
TO_DMIS_REPORT=OFF,FILE_OPTION=INDEX,FILENAME=,$
REPORT_THEORETICALS=NONE,REPORT_FEATURE_WITH_DIMENSIONS=NO,$
TO_EXCEL=OFF,$
PREVIOUS_RUNS=DELETE_INSTANCES

CS2 =REPORT/CUSTOM, FILENAME=Custom Report, Section=-1
PARAM/=
ENDCUSTOM/

PRINT/REPORT,EXEC MODE=END,$
TO_FILE=ON,AUTO=1,AUTO OPEN=OFF,$
TO_PRINTER=OFF,COPIES=1,$
TO_DMIS_REPORT=OFF,FILE_OPTION=INDEX,FILENAME=,$
REPORT_THEORETICALS=NONE,REPORT_FEATURE_WITH_DIMENSIONS=NO,$
TO_EXCEL=OFF,$
PREVIOUS_RUNS=DELETE_INSTANCES

First print command is to clear the default print method that causes double headers so be sure printer/report and all are OFF. Insert Custom Report command. Second command prints/saves the custom report template, and would only be for that current program. This worked for me, but I lost page numbers for some reason at the bottom. Probably due to the space taken by the double headers. So manually duplicating a report template to use your custom header will be optimal.

1. Make a copy of the default TEXTONLY.RTP and then name it to whatever you'd like.

2. File > Reporting > Edit > Report Template and select your newly created report

3. Edit the File Header "RULE" as shown in the image above and scroll down to the bottom and select "File Header", then click on the Use Template "FILE_HEADER.LBL" and click Edit. And select label template for your report "CUSTOM.LBL"

I remember hiding the report label just like that in another program I did more than a decade ago to create a custom text based header. It is specific to only that program and executes nicely at run time. The caveat... If you refresh (redraw) the report, the default header reappears and will print.

You did however, provide me another solution. I hid the default header just like you suggested by doing a right click - Hide Selected Label. That did this:

So far so good. I then redrew the report. (The circled arrow) and the page moved up.

Just what I want...

For some sneaky reason, I decided to save the program as another revision (let's say XXXX R2). It went through the process of saving the program and this window popped up.

I clicked on Yes and it finished saving the program.

I then closed the program and loaded a program I had ran earlier just to see what the header would look like. The default header, just the way I want it. I closed that program and reloaded XXXX R2. A redraw of the report showed the custom header successfully saved with the program. No extra coding needed. Sometimes you need a second pair of eyes looking at it... Thanks.

I remember hiding the report label just like that in another program I did more than a decade ago to create a custom text based header. It is specific to only that program and executes nicely at run time. The caveat... If you refresh (redraw) the report, the default header reappears and will print.

You did however, provide me another solution. I hid the default header just like you suggested by doing a right click - Hide Selected Label. That did this:

So far so good. I then redrew the report. (The circled arrow) and the page moved up.

Just what I want...

For some sneaky reason, I decided to save the program as another revision (let's say XXXX R2). It went through the process of saving the program and this window popped up.

I clicked on Yes and it finished saving the program.

I then closed the program and loaded a program I had ran earlier just to see what the header would look like. The default header, just the way I want it. I closed that program and reloaded XXXX R2. A redraw of the report showed the custom header successfully saved with the program. No extra coding needed. Sometimes you need a second pair of eyes looking at it... Thanks.

You know, I got that to happen as well accidentally while doing this, and didn't think anything of it. I had thought it would save the report for all programs. Nice work. At least there's more than 1 way to do it now on this post.