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Call New Page - Magic NPR

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IF{/.LL<1 %[/R.NEW.PAGE.PGM](0)},/.LL-1^/.LL

That line of code is the code NPR uses to manage page length based on the Lines/Page & Page Size parameters on Screen 1 of your NPR report. The /.LL variable is a slash variable used to tell the Report Writer how many LINES are LEFT. I call it the LINES.LEFT variable. From NPR you can access it as @.lines.left which translates to /.LL. @.line translates to IF{/.LL-1^/.LL<1 %[/R.NEW.PAGE.PGM](0)}.

If you want NPR to print a new page at a particular point in your report; set /.LL to 0:

0^/.LL

While you might be tempted to assign 0 to @.lines.left or .lines.left; you cannot. The NPR syntax checker won't allow you to assign values to something starting with an @ prefix. With a normal field like ADM.PAT.patient, you could take the @ symbol off and assign "A1234"^ADM.PAT.patient and that would translate to "A1234"^aa. Which is why you need to assign the value of 0 to /.LL instead of the .lines.left macro.

When /.LL is less than 1; we just set it to 0, the Report Writer calls the new page program:

IF{/.LL<1 %[/R.NEW.PAGE.PGM](0)},/.LL-1^/.LL

Either way the /.LL will be decremented by one until /.LL = 0.

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