Crystal Report number of pages according to field value - crystal-reports

Question

My first question, so please excuse any mistakes.
We have internal ID numbers for product that we are selling, composed of: [SalesOrder_Num]/[Num].
For each Id No. we offer a Test Certificate to the client. Test Certificate defines the suitable age of product, along with its technical specification. Multiple items (20-30) on sales order can have same technical specification, but different ID number. ID Number also becomes Certificate Number.
We need to print/pdf these test certificates using Crystal Reports. There is a custom made Certificate Window on which technical specs are manually typed, along with sales order number. We also fill in number of Certificates (= [Num]).
What we now want is: Print [Num] of records/PDF with Certificate Number incrementally increasing on each PDF - [SalesOrder_Num]/1, [SalesOrder_Num]/2, ... ... ,[SalesOrder_Num]/[Num-1], [SalesOrder_Num]/[Num].
How is it possible?
Best Regards,
K

Answer 1

Create a REPEATER table with a single column (How_Many) that looks like this:
How_Many
1
2
3
4
5
6
etc..
Now, in your report, add the Repeater Table and add a join condition of:
Order.quantity >= Repeater.How_Many
If the ">=" join option is not available, remove the join to the REPEATER table and create this condition in the Record Selection condition:
{Order.quantity} >= {Repeater.How_Many}
This would cause each order to be duplicated as many times as the value of {Order.quantity}.
If you are restricted to using an equal join, you can also modify the repeater table to include N records for each quantity N:
1
2
2
3
3
3
...
This would cause each order to be duplicated as many times as the value of {Order.quantity}.
If you need to print "N of M" modify the repeater table to look like this:
N M
1 1
2 1
2 2
3 1
3 2
3 3
and use an equal join to the N column.
An alternative solution is to use a 3rd-party Crystal tool. At least one of the 3rd-party Crystal Reports viewers listed here provides the functionality you are seeking (without needing to add a Repeater table to your database).