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Will FusionPro Imposer work on Fixed Length Files? If I compose a document without imposition everything work fine. If I put any type of imposition (even a 1-up imposition) FusionPro has a conniption fit half way through the data file and states that it can't find the variables that it did find for the first half?

 

Is this a known bug?:eek:

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I've tried several times to upload the zip file but it doesn't work. I keep getting a message screen that PTI has encountered some sort of database error. The zip file is only about 900K in size so it can't be too big to upload. I've done bigger ones. I've also sent a message to the forum support with a snapshot of the error message I keep getting, but no response as of yet.

 

If you could send me your email in a private message I would be glad to send it to you. Hope you can make heads of tails out of it.

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I've tried several times to upload the zip file but it doesn't work. I keep getting a message screen that PTI has encountered some sort of database error. The zip file is only about 900K in size so it can't be too big to upload. I've done bigger ones. I've also sent a message to the forum support with a snapshot of the error message I keep getting, but no response as of yet.

 

If you could send me your email in a private message I would be glad to send it to you. Hope you can make heads of tails out of it.

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Can you just post an excerpt of it directly, in a [noparse]

[/noparse] block? We probably don't need to see the full 900K file to get the gist of what it is.

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Do you want me to just post the data file? Would that be enough for you to test this problem? If that's all you need then here...I'll also include the header which I had copied off to a separate file since it is normally not used for a fixed length file.

 

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If you just copy what is in the code portion and pate it into an empty wordpad file you should get the entire "test" data file that I used.

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Dan,

 

While you are checking out this bug, maybe you can also address what I think is another bug in the fixed-length format of FusionPro. I am not able to copy a data definition structure from one template set up as fixed length to another using the "import data source from another document" option of the Data Definition. The new document is indeed set up as fixed length, but I have to go into the edit fields option and re-insert all the field names and their lengths instead of this information being copied over. There is only one field and it is called "Field0".

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While you are checking out this bug, maybe you can also address what I think is another bug in the fixed-length format of FusionPro. I am not able to copy a data definition structure from one template set up as fixed length to another using the "import data source from another document" option of the Data Definition. The new document is indeed set up as fixed length, but I have to go into the edit fields option and re-insert all the field names and their lengths instead of this information being copied over. There is only one field and it is called "Field0".

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Okay, thanks for the extra information, and thanks for sending the job to Support. I did manage to reproduce and fix both problems. It seems that fixed-length data files are not a very commonly used feature (especially in conjunction with imposition), and the bugs you have uncovered have been around for some time.

 

The fixes should be included in an upcoming release. You can reference case FP-11929 for any follow-up with Support.

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