Hi Team I have to maintain an VB a

[freewilly]

Hi Team
I have to maintain an VB app that uses Crystal formulas in a strange way.
The reports have formulas Stating with 'PASS_' eg PASS_Grouping. All it has in it is the following

//Type = NumberCombo
//Caption = Select Grouping
//Add = 1,Contact - Contact Group
//Add = 2,Contact Group - Contact
//Default = 1
1

The app then seems to read this and presents the user with a combo box with the caption 'Select Grouping' and this become part of the selection criteria for the report.

Does anyone know how this is done? Or has anyone seen this done before?

 

[dcm]

freewilly: It looks to me as if the programmer set up to have 2 alternative groups available in the report at runtime. I assume that you will find the PASS_Grouping field is used in the report definition to drive grouping and the VB code probably resets the formula to have a value of 2 if you want Contact Group followed by Contact rather than the default 1 if you want Contact followed by Contact Group. Suggest you look in the code for SelectionFormula code David C. Monks
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