Possible? Need to Trick CR10 into Thinking Section is Empty.

[marcus101]

Have a rather unusual problem:

I need to programatically "trick" Crystal Reports 10 into thinking that individual field components are not present on the report (the equivalent would be "hiding" them in VB/Access) or to trick an entire section into thinking it is empty come processing time.

Is there a way to do this via a simple CR formula? Or will I have to go to a deeper programming level to try and accomplish this? (say at the app or embedded level?)

Regards,
marcus101




marcus101
Access/SQL/XML Developer
Ottawa, Canada

 

[fredp1]

You can conditionally suppress objects and or sections by a boolean condition.
If its a object. Format field(object), click on the common tab, then click on the x+2 along side the suppress check box.
enter you boolean formulae. like
{Tablename.fieldname}='Whatever'
then save it
If the fieldname = 'Whatever' then condition will be true and the field/object will be suppressed.

You can do similar things to sections.

Is that what you mean?

Cheers
Fred