creating a message

[jschill2628]

If I have a crystal report that I have published on business object, and I have prompts for my used to choose a date range, a Hospital and a type of event that has happened to bring back information for a report. Is there a way to put up a message for the user that would say some thing like “there are no incidents that currently meet this criteria”, like a pop up or a message. Currently when the report is run, and there is no data for them they just get a blank screen, and then they proceed to flip out, because they don’t think they are running the report right, or that the report is not working correctly. So does anyone out there know of a way to put up a message for them? I hope this was clear enough. Thank you!

 

[lbass]

In file->report options, make sure that "suppress printing if no records" is NOT checked. Then create a formula for the Report Header:

if isnull({table.field}) then
"No Records Meet the Selected Criteria"

...where {table.field} is a recurring (non-null) field.

-LB

 

[jschill2628]

PERFECT, Thank you!