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Why am I getting flashing cost errors in my Word report?

If flashing totals don’t calculate correctly in a Word order form, it’s often caused by unmerged product codes and/or unwanted stock-length references in FLENGTHS.DAT.

Updated over a week ago

🧩 What’s going on

Error calculating flashing costs in Word report.
It seems that this issue had two problems contributing.


1️⃣ 🧾 Problem 1 — Flashings listed as separate lengths

The first was that the flashing order form using ###TotalOrder Summary separated each flashing length when apparently no flashing stock lengths were defined. It appeared as shown below:

✅ Fix

Use the option [Merge Product Codes] in the Supply and Install Options dialog.


2️⃣ 📏 Problem 2 — Stock length references still affecting totals

The next was the fact that even after merging product codes, we still got an extra bit of detail as if the stock lengths table was being referenced (because it was) and the total cost calculation was not executing correctly.

✅ Fix

Edit the FLENGTHS.DAT file to remove reference to any products that didn't use stock lengths, which on this case, was all of them.

Note also the correct calculation of the line item and reference to the @3400 (a stock length number) has gone too.


🤷 Mystery cause

How the details got there is a mystery, but that fixed the problem.

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