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Question

I have a report that is only one record, however, the user specifies how many times it needs printed, let's say 10. Each time it prints it prints 4 of the same report. Like this, Page 1 x 4, Page 2 x 4, Page 3 x 4, etc. With 10 copes their will be 40 pages altogether.
Update:
I was able to get all the pages I needed based on the values the user inputs. So if there are 10 pallets I have 40 pages of labels, which is correct. Now the control number part that needs to be displayed. It is kind of like a page number but every 4 pages the number needs to increment by 1. I assume I can use WhilePrinterRecords and some how increment, but I am still new to Crystal and unfamiliar with it.
Example:
Page 1: Control number 1
Page 2: Control number 1
Page 3: Control number 1
Page 4: Control number 1
Page 5: Control number 2
Page 6: Control number 2
Page 7: Control number 2
Page 8: Control number 2
This would continue until there is no more pages to print.

Answer 1

if you want 4 copies for each label, what you could do is create 4 sections on the report with the same info. Make sure that you assign the label size to each page(e.g. 4x6). e.g. if you have that info on your header, create PHa, PHb, PHc and PHd, same for details or PF.
don't know if this could work for you, but at least is a recommendation. You can create suppressed sections with the same info(e.g. 10 sections) and create a parameter that control that suppress condition defaulted in 4. If the user what to print 5, it will enable section 5th, same if want to print 3 it will suppress the 4th.
Upadte: how to get the increment:
place a formula on your page footer like below one. It will return value when gets an integer and suppress it when is equal to 0(right click on it, number tab, customize, suppress if 0).
if pagenumber = Ceiling(pageNumber,4) then numbervar page := page +1
then place another formula on your PF as well like below one and suppress it when pagenumber = Ceiling(pageNumber,4) so it won't show when the other has value and put one overlapping the other to get the value in the same place.
if {1st formula} <> 0 then numbervar page1 := {1st formula};
page1 + 1
2nd Update:
Because is a label and your details are acting as a new page do this:
create a new detail section, so you will have details a and b and place your formulas on details b

Answer 2

I have used additional tables for such tricks; these tables must be linked to report to multiply main query results. Some care has to be taken to not allow multiple users printouts to mix.
Example, assuming your report query has some unique id to link and your user/session has also some unique id:
you create table cr_special(reportid int, userid int, ctlnumber int)
you design report, linked to this table by reportid and filtered by userid; changing ctlnumber field is taken from your special table
before printing, you delete all records with reportid/userid combo and insert new ones
you print report, giving userid as parameter
Say you want to print 10 reports with increasing numbers - then you insert 10 records into your special table with ctlnumber increasing from 1 to 10.
Variation of this solution is to use some other non-related table, like our all-dates-containing dates table :)
Both of these solutions are ugly, but they usually work.
Another approach is to use some stored procedure to return these sequential numbers as records and link your report to such procedure; Crystal Reports and stored procedures do not behave always well however.