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In Crystal report how we suppress page header on pagenumber >= 2 when records are completed on the previous page

Go to the Section Expert of the header. Suppress it with the checkbox and then, in the suppression formula, do this (with Basic syntax):
if pagenumber > 1 then formula = true

Maybe this will help? Just make a couple headers and a conditional that hides on the non-first page...

In the suppress formula box you can simply enter
Pagenumber<>1
This is true for all but the first page and thus will suppress on all but the first page.

Maybe you want to suppress the header on the second page if there is no record in the Detail section.
Please take a look at
Number of details records on the crystal report page

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Two different pages with distinct headers and footers in crystal reports

Right so I'm fairly new to this crystal reports thing and i've been stuck with this for days and can't get my head around it!
i have to produce a report which contains two pages - 1. purchase order and 2. receiving note
report 1. has its own
header
detail
footer
report 2 has distincts header, detail and footer.
the only way i managed to make this happen was to use subreports but they only work in 1 level deep so having the addresses in subreports themselves i can't use this!
Now ive tried creating new groups and all of that but i cant get it to show in different pages
right now i have
header1
header2
details1
details2
footer1
footer2
any ideas of what could i do please?
If you know that page 1 and 2 are always page 1 and 2 (and a page 1 doesn't spill over into the 2nd page pushing the original 2nd page out to the 3rd page) then you can use a formula to change the header based on the page number. Create a new formula and then you can do something like this:
Basic Syntax
If PageNumber = 1 Then
formula = "This is the page header for page 1"
ElseIf PageNumber = 2 Then
formula = "This is the page header for page 2"
End If
That said, I probably would probably stick to using sub reports and use the report headers in those reports to display your unique headings. Using the section expert you can make sure that there is a page break between the two sub reports.

How to conditioanlly hide group header in crystal report based on a column value in details section

I hope some one must have dealt this situation before.
I have a crystal report and on that report I have different sections including headers ,detail and footer. I'm displaying parts related information on details section and description is one of the fields thats being displayed.
So now based on part's description(in detail section)I have to display some text on the page header. So I have to look for part's description for every single part ,and if even a single part has the given description out of all the parts I have to print a message on report header.
My assumption is to use conditonal suppress option at the page header section, but not sure how to check for values from details section at the page header level.
Any help will be highly appreciated.
Thanks
NAF
Here's the way I would approach it.
Create a formula which returns 1 when your condition is met- otherwise 0. For example:
if {table.field} like '*acid*' then 1 else 0;
Then your conditional surpression can sum your new formula- and if the result is 0 it will hide the message.
sum({formula}) = 0
If you want to display it in Report Header then i would use a SQL Expression to conditionally suppres the text you want.
The SQL Expression
(select count(1) from dbo.TABLE where description = 'my_description')
Then in the Suppress formula:
{?SQL_EXPRESSSION} = 0

Crystal Reports: suppress details sections conditional on page number

I have a Crystal Reports question on suppressing different details sections, appreciate any help you could give.
I have 2 details sections, A and B, and I want detailsA to show only on page 1 and detailsB to show only on page 2, but I can't get it to work using conditional suppressing. For detailsA I suppressed based on the following formula:
if pagenumber = 1 then
formula = false
else
formula = true
end if
And similarly for the detailsB. But when I then go to print this, it only shows page 1 (with detailsA only), it doesn't print a page 2. How do I force page 2 to also print?
(by the way, I'm using Crystal Reports 10, in case that's relevant)
Conditional-suppression formulae:
//section a
PageNumber=2
//section b
PageNumber=1
** edit **
I suspect the following:
Suppression formula suppresses page 1.
Page 2 now is now page 1
Suppression formula suppresses page 1 (nee 2).
The easiest solution would be to enable 'force new page after' on details A.

Insert page breaks between report groups with two-sided printing

In group expert options I have set Keep Group Together, which makes sure a new page is set.
With two-sided printing enabled, how can I make sure that a new group always forms on a new sheet of paper? Can this be done in the formula expert? Is there some way of checking if the page I'm on is even or odd and insert a page from there? Just asking leading questions because I'm not familiar with what is possible with Crystal's formula editor. BTW, This is Crystal XI Enterprise Server.
You can do this with the onfirstrecord, pagenumber and the onlastrecord keywords.
On the group header section "New page before" formula...
not onfirstrecord //so every group (except the first) starts on a new page
On "New page after" formula...
//to keep the group from starting on even page but make sure the last page is not blank
remainder(pagenumber, 2) = 1 and not onlastrecord
Open the Section Expert screen. Select Report Header and check "Suppress (No Drill-Down)". Then select in the group header select the group you want to page break and check "New Page Before".
This Works fine if I need Page Break on one Group. How do I do if Page Break on Multiple Groups?
I found answer..
Using Next(Field) or Previous(Field), I added below condition and worked fine.
In Next Page Before formula:
Not onFirstRecord and ({table.field} <> previous({table.field}))
hi IronicMuffin i understand you question. the answer is versy simple but more effetcive.
step 1: Include dataset or database expert into your crystal report
Step2: In the outside surface of the report area right click and goto report and goto group expert
Step3: add the which field you include the group that time the bottom of the window options will appear
Step 4: click the option and agian goto 2nd tab of the option.
step 5: finally check(check=true) check box of Repeat Group header on each page other check box or put uncheck

Force Suppress in Crystal Reports

How can I suppress a Details Section with a formula?
In my reports it may happen that a details section is empty. The only problem is, that CR wants to show the details section at least once because there are labels and some graphics in the Section...
If you right click on the Details section while in Design view you can choose Section Expert and then specify a formula which, if true, will suppress the Details section. (You don't say which Crystal Reports version you have, these instructions are for v10.)
You could use this formula for example:
count({detail_field},{group_field}) = 0
like paulmorris said...go to the section expert and bring up the suppress formula for the details section. Enter a boolean expression that is true when you want to suppress, such as...
isnull({someFieldThatIndicatesTheDetailsWillBeEmpty})