Yes, I'm going with Tom's method - its already up and running just fine.

Small record numbers so the window flickering isn't a problem.

Controlling via page numbers is not an option in this case, as each record
within the region set,  has to be sent to one of two printing layouts, and
appended to the PDF created for that region.

Thanks to all for the help - once again.....

Regards
Peter

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: 13 November 2014 11:37
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Subject: Re: saving grouped records to individual PDF files

I'm with Tom on this one, unless I (we) are misunderstanding the mission.

It's a method I've commonly used to restrain a found set for some purpose
and then return to the original set. Simple. No complex requirements like
object naming, looping...

The only drawback I see is that if the process takes some time you have to
put some time into controlling the user interface - unless your users don't
care about a bit of screen flickering.

Steve


On 12 Nov 2014, at 22:18, Tom Elliott wrote:

> This  seems to be unnecessarily complicated.
> 
> Why not:
>  open new window (retains the original found set)  constrain by region  
> print to PDF  close window
> 
> repeat for each region