Crystal Reports Third pass

[PopsBirt]

I am trying to figure out a way to get the page n of m without making the third pass. We have reports that print several hundred pages and use sub reports and desire to have the page n of m in the header but cannot as it puts a load on the Servers.

I believe this will make a third pass because using the TotalPagecount method. Can anyone verify this please...


// Page N of M formula without making additional pass
NumberVar startNum := 1;
Page + ToText((PageNumber + startNum), 0) +
of + ToText((TotalPageCount + startNum), 0)

 

[IanWaterman]

Using Page N of M or totalpagecount requires the report to be executed completely including all subreports in order to calculate total number of pages.

Without those formula report will build one page at a time an run subreports as required.

Ian