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Business Reporting Tips and Tricks - Using Crystal Reports

Posted by Nicole Sherman on Wed, Dec 14, 2011 @ 05:43 PM

Suppress Crystal Subreports without losing hidden Shared Variables

Up until two hours ago, using Crystal Reports was giving me fits! I had a subreport that contained a shared variable which was filling my report with blank rows which I could not hide without messing up the data in the main report. It looked terrible with all the extra blank spaces in it, but I needed the subreport with the shared variable to make it all work.

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Topics: Business Reporting, crystal reports

Business Reporting - Crystal Reports Tidbit: Fixing Printing Problems

Posted by Robert Baran on Mon, Jun 20, 2011 @ 04:57 PM
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Topics: Business Reporting, crystal reports

Cystal 10 Business Reporting Answer: Group Header Titles on All Pages

Posted by Robert Baran on Tue, Jun 14, 2011 @ 04:46 PM

Crystal Reports is a great business reporting application, however sometimes challenges get in the way of the reports you need. We recently learned something new for Crystal version 10 and up that is a huge time saver!

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Topics: Business Reporting, crystal reports

Business Reporting: Passing date parameters into a sub report

Posted by Robert Baran on Wed, Jan 26, 2011 @ 03:10 PM

Using Business Objects (Crystal Reports) for business reporting, we often run into the situation where a sub report is required that is based on the parameters requested in the main report. There may not be a direct link from a data element in the main report and data sub report. This seems to occur most often when the sub report is in the report footer. For example a check register is created that is selected by check date range. A summary report is required after the checks are printed to show the total expenses by general ledger account paid for by these checks.

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Topics: Business Reporting, crystal reports

Printing Crystal Reports through Peachtree Quantum

Posted by Robert Baran on Mon, Jan 03, 2011 @ 03:07 PM
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Topics: crystal reports, Sage 50