Conditional supression based on subreport results

[tbear6602]

Hi! Running Crystal 10 and Oracle 9i.

I've created a subreport that pulls a record selection based on parameters from the main. Basically, what I'm doing is pulling a system name from the main and passing it to the subreport. The subreport then pulls other records for a different period of time from the main.

I'm grouping the records by system, then counting them. If the count is 5 or less, I want to supress the subreport and the appearance of the record in the main report as well. What I've done is create a shared variable SUPRESS.

Here is the code:
shared stringVar Supress;
if (Count(SystemID,SystemID) <5 then
Supress := 'Y'
Else Supress :='N'

I have placed this in my subreport, then created the same variable in the main that just checks the value of SUPRESS.

I then created a conditional supression of the section based on the value of SUPRESS. However, the variable is not being updated.

Did I miss something?