I have crystal reports XI, I am new to crystal reports and am not tech savvy, so please consider that in your reply. There is a section that does not populate at all when the value is zero. The whole section disappears on the generated reports. I need the section to show and I need the zero value to show. Any suggestions?
do a right click on that section(where the section name is), go to section expert and on the common tab see if you have something under Suppress(No drill-down) X-2 button(might be red). There should be a condition that is suppressing the section when the field takes 0 value. You can suppress that condition putting // in-front on it or just delete it. You may also check if Suppress Blank Section is checked, if so remove the check mark.
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I am trying to export report in excel but detail section give extra line per record. i want report with only single line for single recordenter image description here
Make sure that the bottom of your section is touching the bottom of every field in the section. If any fields are slightly taller/shorter or there is a gap between the field and the section boundary this normally happens.
If you believe that not be the case, possibly share a screenshot of the report in design mode and it may help.
I'm using a Crystal Report connected with VB.NET 2010, here I using a Line object, which I need to show or hide depending on data field. Where do I need to set the formula?
This project I use is running with SQL 2008 and VB.NET 2010. I've tried some Formula Field for this topic. But the result is not look like that I want to show.
I use the following code on Formula Field:-
IF isNull({PrintParticularList.CUST_INVOICE_No}) or {PrintParticularList.CUST_INVOICE_No}=""
THEN
""
ELSE
"--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
I also try this following Code :-
IF isNull({PrintParticularList.SLNO}) or {PrintParticularList.CUST_INVOICE_No}=""
THEN
Line25.Suppress=True
ELSE
Line25.Suppress=False
But here I got error on Line25.
A number, currency amount,boolean, date, time, date-time, or string is
expected here.
In the Report Designer use the Insert Line tool to draw the line where you want it to appear on your report. The right-click the line object and select "Format Line..." to open the Format Editor dialog box. On this window you will find a check box labeled "Suppress" with an X-2 button to the right. Click the X-2 button and this will open a Formula Workshop window where you will enter the formula that determines if this drawing object should be suppressed or not.
I would recommend the following formula based upon your previous attempts at creating one.
IF isNull({PrintParticularList.SLNO}) or {PrintParticularList.CUST_INVOICE_No}="" THEN
True
ELSE
False
-----EDIT-----
Since you don't have the X-2 button I have 2 more ideas.
1.) Take the 1 section you current have and split it into 3 sections. Then you could place all the content above the line in the first section, place the line in the second section, and the content below the line in the third section. They use the formula to suppress the second section when the line is not needed.
2.) Insert a blank text box in place of the line and set either the top or bottom border of the text box to a single line. Then use the suppress formula to determine if the text box should be shown or hidden.
I would like to display only 4 pages on my Crystal report, however, I am getting an extra empty page. I cannot pin the reason to what sounds like a trivial issue.
My report has the following:
- No fields in the main report - This is not avoidable.
- One sub-report.
- In order to have the sub-report header repeat I followed this method described here. (I just do not understand what the formula means and whether this is the reason for the extra page but I am getting a header as I require).
I am suppressing the pages in both the report and sub-report as follows: in the suppress I am using
if pagenumber>4 then true;
I tried to put in all my sections
Not(onLastRecord)
I am simply lost. All I need to do is print 4 pages only regardless how long the report/sub-report is. I also need the sub-report to have a repeating header. Thanks.
Try to reduce the size:
-If possible supress group and report footers
-Right Click on each section you can and select "Fit Section"
-Change the color of some sections so you can see if any responsible for the extra page
-Maybe the paper is set to letter ? : Go Design - Page Setup, set A4 or you can also try no printer to see if something changes ( this last one will change the format of your fields so backup before)
If you have any footer sections that are not being used, try suppressing them. This will remove empty white space that is added at the end of the report. Another option is to adjust the size of your top and bottom margins, providing there are no design conflicts in doing so.
If you have any white space at the bottom of the sections that appear at the end of the report you could also reduce the height of that section to remove the white space.
I am trying to suppress the text value in crystal by right clicking on the text object, selecting suppress and hitting the x2 button and adding the formula
isnull(field)
When I look at the print preview the text is still there when the field value is null.
In the formula section, I changed the code from
isnull(field)
to
if {field} = "" then
true;
In Crystal Reports a placeholder will still be on-screen when you hover over a suppressed field. Since the field is NULL there really won't be a visual difference between NULL and suppressed fields.
~ Nathan
I can put my field in a section, right-click on the section (left margin of the editor) and select Section Expert... In the Section Expert, I ensure the correct section is selected, then I can check the box for "Suppress Blank Section".
Really all you needed was a pair of {} inside ()
Correct line of code to suppress anything in report if it's null is:
isnull({your_report_name.database_field_name})
Using Crystal Report 8.5
How to skip blank pages?
I want to skip blank pages or blank field?
Need Formula Help.
You can check the check box in the Section Expert that says "Suppress Blank Section" to suppress the entire section
To suppress a field you can right click on the field and click Format Field and press the formula button (x+2) next to the suppress check box on the common tab and then enter your formula to use as the suppression logic. To this simply put in a function that would return a boolean value where a returned value of true would suppress the field and false would show the field. Remember that you don't need to check the suppress check box if you have a formula entered. Hope this helps.