When I export a job to PDF, the "Bottom of Borehole @ xx ft." text is missing. I used to always be there automatically but one day it stopped printing. What's weird is that other people in my company working with the same file print it just fine and it does show up when they do it. Therefore, it must be a setting or something in my computer. Does anyone have some idea what it could be?
Hi Lucas,
I would look at the library file first. You may be using a different report or your own local copy of the library that may have different settings. Verify with your coworkers what library they are opening. If you are opening a library file that is on your C drive then you may have something different.
You can tell what library by going to file ..system properties.. look at the path and file name in the first library file box.
While a bottom of borehole note can be added in a variety of ways. The most common would be in the boundary text property of the material description column. I would check that first. Goto report design ..pick the report you are using to output.....double click on the material description column to open its properties...click on the boundary text tab to verify you have a a text below last line expression. If you don't then that is likely the issue. You company could have a text entity floating at the bottom of the report, but pretty uncommon check in the report design to see if you have one.
It would be rare to have any setting on the computer just affect the bottom of borehole notes and nothing else.
But if you want to try repairing the access database engine it is pretty quick to try. instructions below you only need to try option 1
If these don't seem to help. Click on my name and send me your contact info and we can arrange a call.
Thanks! I think that's it.
The boundary text box was empty. I entered "Bottom of Borehole @ <<BOREHOLE.HoleDepth>> ft bgs" in it and now it works. The problem now is that for whatever reason it won't print the actual number. I can't figure out how to reference it.
This is how it prints:
This is what I'm trying to reference:
Your expression is referencing a table name caption the true table name is point so it should be
Bottom of Borehole @ <<POINT.HoleDepth>> ft bgs
And you can tell that because it's highlighted yellow, right?
In gINT, individual fields are referenced by the Table name and the field name like so; <<TABLE.Field> There are certain tables in gINT which are hard coded and you can't change their name. But users also have the freedom to add tables to their database and name them whatever they want.
Beyond that, you can also Caption a table name which means you can change how the name is displayed for cosmetic purposes. Moreover, you can Caption both hard coded tables and user-created tables.
As an example, in gINT the POINT table contains all your points - which is a main table where for each boring or CPT or test pit is held. But your POINT table is captioned as Borehole as circled below. If you go to the table properties, you can remove the caption for this table and then all the tabs will update showing the table name - POINT.
Fields may also be captioned. In the image above, the "Boring Number" is a caption. The hard coded field name for that is PointID. Fields which are highlighted yellow like your fields Boring Number and HoleDepth are REQUIRED fields which means that you can save the database without first entering values into these fields.