# Hi, This is my first post **URL:** \ **Category:** Forum\ **Tags:** Adabas-Natural, Natural, Natural-Code-Samples\ **Created:** [July 30, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/hi-this-is-my-first-post/75120 "2007-07-30T17:46:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bahiste](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c2a13f/32.png) [@bahiste](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/bahiste)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/hi-this-is-my-first-post/75120/1 "2007-07-30T17:46:24Z")
Hi, I registered this forum today. And have a lot of questions. I guess they are so easy for you. My first question ‘How could I use two different display statement in a natural program without calling any other define window or etc. ?’ First Display Statement Display Name Surname Second Display Statement Display Address Age I tried to write report channel number like following Display (1) Name Surname Display (2) Address Age But it does not work.Could someone help me please… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2007, 5:54pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/hi-this-is-my-first-post/75120/2 "2007-07-30T17:54:13Z")
> [@bahiste](#): > > But it does not work.Could someone help me please… Can you please be a bit more specific about what “does not work” means ? Are you receiving an error message ? Which one ? ---
**Author:** ![Douglas\_Kelly](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/douglas_kelly/32/102_2.png) [@Douglas\_Kelly](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Douglas_Kelly)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2007, 10:14pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/hi-this-is-my-first-post/75120/3 "2007-07-30T22:14:29Z")
You may want to check out the “Natural Basics” forums. This topic [url][http://tech.forums.softwareag.com/viewtopic.php?C=13&t=7269&highlight=natural+report[/url]](http://tech.forums.softwareag.com/viewtopic.php?C=13&t=7269&highlight=natural+report%5B/url%5D) might help you with your questions on DISPLAY statements. I’m guessing as to what you intended, but would expect the following to be closer to what you want: ```auto DISPLAY (1) NAME SURNAME WRITE (1) AGE ADDRESS ``` This puts the second line of information on the same report as the first. There are more complex possibilities for multi-line output with the DISPLAY statement, but they are not as frequently used. ---
**Author:** ![bahiste](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c2a13f/32.png) [@bahiste](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/bahiste)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2007, 10:29pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/hi-this-is-my-first-post/75120/4 "2007-07-30T22:29:25Z")
I wrote the problem in a text file with an attachment. [Program.txt](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/uploads/short-url/unerP6j6qCp0umo79VPC7lmOF8L.txt) (765 Bytes) ---
**Author:** ![Douglas\_Kelly](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/douglas_kelly/32/102_2.png) [@Douglas\_Kelly](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Douglas_Kelly)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2007, 10:50pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/hi-this-is-my-first-post/75120/5 "2007-07-30T22:50:45Z")
Natural doesn’t provide automatic support for “group headings” - you have to put them in yourself. ```auto DISPLAY Ad Soyad /** Subsequently WRITE "Adres" 51t "Age" / "-"(50) 51t "---" WRITE Adres Age ``` (I replaced the second DISPLAY with a WRITE not for any functional reason, but simply a matter of style: it indicates to subsequent maintainers that the line is not generating headings) One more possibility - not quite what you were asking for, but possibly acceptable: ```auto DISPLAY AD / ADRES SOYAD / AGE ``` This puts AD and ADRES in the same column and SOYAD, AGE in the next column (the DISPLAY statement is column oriented; the WRITE/PRINT statements are line oriented). Headings will be on top of the column, not in the data report area. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Robinson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/steve_robinson/32/107_2.png) [@Steve\_Robinson](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Steve_Robinson)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2007, 10:55pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/hi-this-is-my-first-post/75120/6 "2007-07-30T22:55:54Z")
bahiste, You cannot have Natural create this type of output for you (see code below) unless you generate separate reports. Natural takes its column headers from the physically first DISPLAY statement in a program. Thus, you get the headers Ad and Soyad. You could use a WRITE statement to generate your Adress and Age headers. Something like: WRITE 5T ‘Adress’ 40t ‘Age’ / 5t ‘-’ (50) or something like that, the numbers are probably not appropriate to your data. Then you could WRITE Adress Age. I will recommend something I mention to all newbies. This is BASIC Natural stuff. You have apparently not had any Natural education, and probably do not have Natural manuals. Tell management you NEED this, because you do. steve If we run this program, the output will be like following ``` Ad Soyad ``` * * * Mehmet Duran Yuz Street 16 But this output is not suitable for me. I wanna see an output like that. ``` Ad Soyad ``` * * * Mehmet Duran Adress Age * * * Yuz Street 36 ---
**Author:** ![Jerome\_LeBlanc](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/jerome_leblanc/32/111_2.png) [@Jerome\_LeBlanc](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Jerome_LeBlanc)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2007, 11:27pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/hi-this-is-my-first-post/75120/7 "2007-07-30T23:27:05Z")
Here is another possibility using only Display: ```auto DEFINE DATA LOCAL 1 AD (A10) INIT <'Mehmet'> 1 SOYAD (A15) INIT <'Duran '> 1 ADDRESS (A50) INIT <'Yuz Street'> 1 AGE (N3) INIT <16> END-DEFINE FOR AGE = 16 TO 20 DISPLAY AD SOYAD // ADDRESS ' ' // '//AGE' AGE WRITE '-'(75) END ``` I added the FOR loop to show what multiple records would look on a report and the WRITE ‘-’(75) to separate the records. This looks like: ```auto AD SOYAD ADDRESS AGE ---------- -------------------------------------------------- ---- Mehmet Duran Yuz Street 16 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mehmet Duran Yuz Street 17 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mehmet Duran Yuz Street 18 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ``` Something closer to what you want, but much more complex: ```auto FOR AGE = 16 TO 20 DISPLAY AD 'SOYAD' SOYAD // 'ADDRESS' / '-'(50) / '/' ADDRESS ' ' // 'AGE' / '-'(3) / '/' AGE (SG=OFF) WRITE '-'(75) END ``` Looks like this when run: ```auto AD SOYAD ---------- -------------------------------------------------- Mehmet Duran ADDRESS AGE -------------------------------------------------- --- Yuz Street 16 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mehmet Duran ADDRESS AGE -------------------------------------------------- --- Yuz Street 17 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mehmet Duran ADDRESS AGE -------------------------------------------------- --- Yuz Street 18 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ``` If you really want to stretch your skill set, check out WRITE USING FORM. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 2:48pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/hi-this-is-my-first-post/75120/8 "2021-04-02T14:48:36Z")