Yeah, some of these reports have hundreds and hundreds of 'primary' rows and mulitple sub reports. No wonder the refresh times (and the DB access charges) are so high. Thats why I was looking for a 'better way'.
Unfortunately our IT management has over the years (since reports no longer have...
It is sort of a hack but that's why they give us the programming capabilities.
I'm the Business Objects 'guru' at our shop and we are now incorporating Crystal into the XI enterprise and this was the first thing I've ever done with Crystal (other than creating a one table unformatted report so...
Thanks synapsevampire. That did it!!! The real report actually had 6 subreports which are replaced by this new methods and runs much, much, much faster.
Hope I can do the same for you some time.
DOTJake
Thanks. As I said, I'm new to Crystal so the displaying the values in the group footer was not obvious to me. I'll try that.
I'm not sure why, as a developer, you thought that column names mattered. did the c1,c2... help? I was able to figure out that your Field1, Field2, and Field3 were the...
Thanks for the reply (except for the 'lazy' comment).
First, the column names are c1,c2,c3,c4,c5,c6, and c7 (didn't think that was needed to understand the problem)needed). The 'details' columns are c5,c6,c7 and the groups are C1, c2 and c3+c4. column c6 is numeric. I do not need any group...
I am trying to to do the following without doing subreport.
My data is grouped at a number of levels but I want to show details in columns across without repeating data.
here's 'structure' the data
G1 G2 G3 AA x 1 a
G1 G2 G3 AA x 1 b
G1 G2 G3 AA x 1 c
G1 G2 G3 AA x 1 d...
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