WHy always false 3

[thysonj]

I am new to CR and I am having problems doing even simple things with formulas.
If I put a formula like this in it always resolves to false when I previen the report. What am I doing wrong?

StringVar Name;
Name = {spGetGroupReportData4;1.GroupMemberID_fk}

This is simplified even from the if-else statment i was running and even this doesn't do anything except give me false.

 

[dgillz]

use a :=, not an =, to assign a value to a variable in Crystal Syntax.

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[Ngolem]

dgillz is right....

in Crystal language
:= is assignment equals
= is comparison equals

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[thysonj]

I knew it was something totally stupid...thanks

 

[Ngolem]

hahaha...not stupid...it just takes a while to get used to Crystal syntax...there are more "stupid" things that you will have to learn....

for example with respect to IF_Then blocks study this syntax

If {Table.value} = "something" then
(
{Table.number} := 9;
{Table.string} := "A";
)
else
{Table.string} := "B";

things to note:

1. the final ";" after "B" is like a VB "end IF" showing the end of the If_then block.
2. If you have more than 1 statement in the block you must use brackets to keep them together
3. the result of each section of the If_then block must be of the same datatype

for example this construction will NOT work

If {Table.value} = "something" then
(
{Table.string} := "A";
{Table.number} := 9; //this is numeric
)
else
{Table.string} := "B"; // this is a string

So you have many so-called "stupid" things to learn...hahaha... we all have learned them.

Jim Broadbent

The quality of the answer is directly proportional to the quality of the problem statement!