Here are some of our Top Tips for Date Calculations in Crystal Reports: Calculate Days between two dates Date calculations are frequently used to calculate a period of time, for instance a number of days that has passed since an event has occurred. Formula Name: @Processing Days Formula Purpose: To calculate the number of days[…]
What is Crystal Reports? An extremely powerful and easy to use database reporting tool, you can enhance your data reports with Crystal Reports. Acting as a “Read Only” tool there is absolutely no chance of your data being changed or corrupted in any way. So it doesn’t matter how many times you may run a[…]
At Eident we offer substantial discounts to multiple attendees booked on any of our standard public training courses. For every additional attendee an organisation sends on one of our training courses in Glasgow or Edinburgh the percentage discount increases. Discounts from 25% to 85% apply for multiple bookings on the same course. For example, for[…]
Linking a subreport to the data in the primary report Frequently, the data in a subreport supplements the data in the primary report. You might, for example, have customer data in a primary report and then use subreports to show the orders for each customer. In such cases, you will need to coordinate the data[…]
After a few minor upgrades in previous editions, the new version of Crystal Reports coming out now actually has some useful new features: Conditional formatting of lines and boxes – a nice, simple formatting attribute, removing the need to create multiple sections with a different lines and each section conditionally hidden to show the different[…]
Working with the Formula Editor The formula shown at the bottom of the Select Expert is not just for informational purposes: It can be edited in-place. However, a much better editor exists for formulas. It’s called the Formula Editor, and it can be accessed by clicking the Formula Editor button in the Select Expert or[…]
The Record Selection Formula Although the Select Expert is quite powerful, there are certain situations where you need to define a filter that is more complex than the Select Expert allows. Fortunately, Crystal Reports has a built-in formula language that enables custom expressions to be defined as a filter. In fact, this is one of[…]