Design Concepts - Creating Page Elements - Carried Forward and Brought Forward

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The Carried forward and Brought forward page elements are special types of detail lines that, when defined, are printed automatically by FormTrap. As their names suggest, these detail lines are designed to enable the carrying of totals across pages. While both can print constant objects, variable data for each of these details can only come from the accumulative field or the Base page.

If defined, the Brought forward detail will print as the first line in the Detail Area of every page except the first. Similarly, the Carried forward detail will print as the very last line in the Detail Area of every page except the last.

Carried Forward

To add a Carried forward detail:

Select Carried forward from the Define menu.
On the Settings tab, set the Height for the line. Tick the Print inside group checkbox to print the Carried forward detail inside the table object.
On the Accumulative fields tab, create a new accumulative field if not already defined.
Click the OK button.
Constant objects can now be added in the same way as for other detail lines. Variable objects can be linked to existing accumulative fields.

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Brought Forward

To add a Brought forward detail:

Select Brought forward from the Define menu.
On the Settings tab, set the Height for the line. Tick the Print inside group checkbox to print the Brought forward detail inside the table object.
On the Accumulative fields tab, create a new accumulative field if not already defined.
Constant objects can now be added in the same way as for other detail lines. Variable objects can be linked to existing accumulative fields.

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