I have a date field that shows as CYYMMDD. To get rid of the century I have just subtracted 1000000 to show the date as YYMMDD ex. 150814.
Now I want to add / between the numbers to show as 15/08/14.
How do I do this in the formula?
Thanks in advance!
There are few things to be considered here.
Simply right click on the date field once you place the same in crystal report, you will get options to format data. You can choose whatsoever suits you.
In case you go by your approach for substracting the number..., you can convert the number into strong and then can play with it.
Posting the links for the second point help.Split the number and modify in Crystal
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I am working on a home accounting template (and could not find any good one :-/), so I am creating one for each month. Both in my expenses and my incomes, I would like to have a date column where I just have to insert the "day" (e.g.: 22) and it automatically fills the rest with the current month and year (or I could set them in another cell).
For example: 22 + ENTER would return: 22/12/2014
If I do this, I automatically get a default date: 22/01/1900
I do not know if it is possible to change this defaul date depending on the current one or any other value.
I have tried with a different strategy: if the amount column is not empty, fill in with today's date: =IF(A3="";"";TODAY())
The problem is that I do not always register today's expenses, so I need to change it manually. I was just wondering if this is possible and there is a better way (maybe a macro?).
You need Excel to modify the cell contents after you press ENTER. The only option seems to be a Macro using the Worksheet_Change event.
Please check out this other question. I think that will help.
This can be achieved with simple formatting and use of controls that are available in Excel. VBA will give you drastically more flexibility, however the request above can be accomplished without learning VBA.
I have included a sample file here.
Steps to recreate:
Create a range of months. I created a range including the current month through 12/2014
Insert a combo box from the developer tab. Right click and select Format Control. On the Control tab, input the range you just created and then select a "linked cell". This will insert an integer to indicate which item you picked in the list, starting at 1.
Use the attached formula to add the DAY that you enter in the first column and VLOOKUP the month and year from the value chosen in the combo box.
Enhancements: I used conditional formatting to change the text color of the days you enter to WHITE. This way you won't see them. I also included some checking in the VLOOKUP formula: the day you enter must be a number and must be non-blank for a date to populate.
I have a result from a simple formula of "1.46". I require part of a formula to round the 1.46 to the next integer, for this example it would become "2.00".
I have a fixed date lets say "23/07/2014", If the previous example stated how many days would need to added onto the fixed date, how would I go about this?
I have tried to keep it as simple as possible to give clarity of what I require. If you need any more information, please ask.
Many thanks
For your first one you can use Round function.
I didn't get the second requirement... any example will be useful
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Let the round value is stored in a variable Store. Use below function to add that to date.
DateAdd("d", Store, <<Datefieldhere>>)
I'm trying to build a cross tab report in Crystal XI that has dates, grouped by the month as column heading, and have 2 questions I'm trying to find answers to.
1: Is there any way to display a month even if there are no records to be summarized in that month? i.e. no orders for March, but want to display Jan, Feb, Mar.? I'm pretty sure I can create a dates table and use that spoof it, but don't want to go that route as the database is part of a Vendor's package and I don't want to get to crazy in there.
2: Is there a way of specifying or limiting how many columns go across? For example in a forecast cross tab I only owant current month and the next six months to show up. I suppose I can do a date range on the selection criteria, but that seems a bit kludgy to me.
Thanks for any answers
Short answer: No.
I've seen discussions about workarounds involving creation of temporary tables, but I've never tried any such solutions myself.
I would go with the date range on the selection criteria. You could make those dates parameters for more convenient useage. If you have sevral cross-tabs that should have different date ranges you could put the crosstabs in sub-reports.
In crystal reports I want to show the sum value of time objects, i.e. An employee worked in one month three days and on each day a variable amount of hours.
Is there anyway to sum a time field?
Or as a workaround I could use the time field as an integer, sum this and display. But then I would like to change the display format by using a formula. I cant find a way to include summary fields in a formula...
Thanks in advance
PS I am using CR 2011 (just the program not through VB or anything).
You cannot sum a date/time field. You will have to use datediff("n",{datetime1},{datetime2}) to get a time interval between two date/time fields in minutes.
To use a summary function in a formula, you can use this sum({#YourMinutesFormula},{FieldYouAreGroupingOn})
You may omit the second parameter if you want the summation over the entire report instead of a grouping level. Check the Crystal Reports help file for more details on Sum().
I'm getting an integer value as 2345 but I want to display it as 234.5
is it possible??
To get what you are looking for in a simple fix is like what kingpin stated above. Divide the value by ten. To do this just create a new formula in crystal by going into your field explorer and right clicking on the formula fields section. Under there should be a option to create a new formula. Then in window that comes up put the field you want to manipulate in the formula and then divide that by ten. And there you go. Now use the formula field in the report instead of the original field.
Here is a example of how it could look.
{Table_Foo.value_Bar} / 10
There is a field property for it. Don't have access to crystal reports at the moment, but I know it's there:
Crystal Report Provides an easy to use default thousand separator for numeric Fields. You can use it by checking Thousand Separator from Field Properties.
If you need a customized separator, check Customized Thousand Separator in Crystal Report.
You also might want to find some tutorials on the Crystal Reports themselves if you still have trouble.