ENFORM Reference Manual

TITLE Statement
Statements
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TITLE Statement The TITLE statement allows you to specify a title to be printed the top of each page for
all subsequent reports in the current session unless cancelled or reset by another TITLE
statement or temporarily overridden by a TITLE clause. ( See the TITLE clause in
Section 5.) The syntax of the TITLE statement is:
TITLE [ print-list [ CENTER ] ] [ ; ]
print-list
can contain any combination of literals, FORM, SKIP, SPACE, or TAB clauses. A
print-list can also contain the following elements that can be modified by AS, AS
DATE, or AS TIME clauses: field names, arithmetic expressions, IF/THEN/ELSE
expressions, System Variable clauses, JULIAN-DATE clauses, TIMESTAMP-DATE
clauses, TIMESTAMP-TIME clauses, user variables, or parameter names.
The clauses that can be used in a print-list are discussed in Section 5. The other
elements are discussed in Section 3.
Specifying a Field Name
within a TITLE Statement
If you specify a field name within the print-list of a TITLE statement, the field has the
same value as in the first row of the page. A field appearing within the TITLE
statement need not be explicitly included within the following LIST statements. If it is
not included, ENFORM effectively adds it with a NOPRINT clause.
Spacing Considerations By default the title begins printing in the same column position as the leftmost report
column. Using SPACE or TAB clauses as the first element of the print-list overrides
this default. SPACE or TAB clauses can also appear anywhere within the print-list. In
the following example, the SPACE clause causes the two literals to be separated by 15
spaces:
TITLE "Inventory" SPACE 15 "Parts in Stock";
Inventory Parts in Stock
If you specify either a SKIP clause or the symbol / (slash) within a print-list, the printer
advances one or more lines before printing the rest of the TITLE print-list. The number
of lines advanced can be affected by one or more of the following: the digit (if any)
following the keyword SKIP, the number of slashes specified, or the option variable
@VSPACE. In the following example, the SKIP clause of the TITLE statement causes
two lines to be printed:
TITLE "Report 2-A" SKIP "Total Sales";
Report 2-A
Total Sales