Hiding groups

[nickwild]

I am using Crystal 8.5 and I am having problems with conditionally suppressing groups.

I have the following group structure:-

G#1 – Grouped by Product
G#2 - Grouped by Date
G#3 – Selling price
Details – always hidden

G#2, G#3 and details are hidden initially showing just the list of products in G#1. However, when I drill into G#1 I would like it to show all G#2 and G#3’s without having to drill into G#2 to see the G#3 results.

If I don’t hide G#3 initially then it shows up in the initial view of all the instances of G#1.

Any ideas?

 

[synapsevampire]

It's a hierarchy, so you have to drill in.

However the tree view control on the left allows you more flexibility with how you drill in.

-k

 

[nickwild]

Is there no way round this programmatically?

 

[kenhamady]

You could try combining the Group 2 field and the Group 3 field into one field, and grouping on that. Then both will show up at the same time.

If you were in v9 you have a DrillDownLevel function that makes this more direct.

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