calculating dates when suppressing records 1

[timISST]

Making a report that I have set up group by client then dates are sorted decending and I have the section suppress if the count is greater than 3 so I get the last 3 records. that works fine. My issue is I need to be able to calculate ( todays date - the newest records date), the newest records date - the next newest record or format the date to change to red if it is past x number of days

 

[lbass]

Create a formula like this:

//{@Gap}
If onfirstrecord or
{table.client}<> previous({table.client}) then
Currentdate-{table.date} else
{table.date}-previous({table.date})

Then select {table.date}->right click->format field->borders->background->color->x+2 and enter:

If {@Gap} > {?NoOfDays} then crRed else
CrNoColor //use a number parameter {?NoOfDays} or replace it with a hard value number, e.g., 5.

This assumes you are testing for lengths of time between records. This would turn the earlier of the two records red in each case.

-LB

 

[timISST]

so to make sure I'm understanding you right ( and thank you) theres no way to do the cr formatting on each one separately? ie the number of days between the 1st and second date isn't > the no of days?

 

[lbass]

I'm not following. Did you try this? What results did you get, and how did the results differ from the desired result?

-LB

 

[timISST]

What I meant to say was the crred control cannt be applied separately to the 2 results?

 

[Charliy]

The CRRed would be applied based on the results on the formula that LInda provided.

 

[lbass]

What two results? Please answer my earlier questions so I can understand the issue.

-LB

 

[timISST]

Ok it works awesome thank you for that the only issue I have and here is my formula is the second date comes out as a negative number can you tell why?
If onfirstrecord or
({Name})<> previous({Name}) then
Currentdate-{data.Data_Entry_Date} else
{data.Data_Entry_Date}-previous({data.Data_Entry_Date})

 

[lbass]

Sorry--the last line should be:

previous({table.date})-{table.date}

-LB

 

[timISST]

awesome thank you!! now I was thrown a curve which I hope can be corrected easily with this is there a way to do a count on the records so they can see how many were done "on first record" and the previous record?

 

[lbass]

Do you mean you need the number of instances where the difference exceeds a certain value? Do you need the result as a summary per client group? Or only for the report as a whole?

-LB

 

[timISST]

report as a whole

 

[lbass]

Create a formula {@cntgap} to be placed in the detail section:

Whileprintingrecords;
Numbervar cnt;
Numbervar gapcnt;

If onfirstrecord or
{table.client}<> previous({@table.client}) then
Cnt := 1 else
Cnt := cnt + 1;

If cnt in 1 to 3 and
{@gap} > {?NoOfDays} then
Gapcnt := gapcnt + 1;

You can suppress this formula if you like.

Then create a formula {@gapcntresult} like this for the report footer:

Whileprintingrecords;
Numbervar gapcnt;

I didn't test this, but think it should work.

-LB