Crystal Report layout, best practice

SAP B1 8.81
I'm having only spotty success with CR layouts and I've experimented quite a bit. What I'd like to do is extensively modify 1 system Crystal Report and then bring it in as a layout, and apply it to AR Item Quote, Order, DN, Invoice, and Return. Does it matter which system document I start with? After I've got a master layout that works for all, what if I need to add small tweaks to a particular document, say a special field that appears in Invoice headers only? How do I do that? These questions aren't addressed in the 'How to Work with CR in SBO' guide.
Anybody have some global guidelines they'd like to offer that lead to success?

Hi Cindy
We have done what you want to do in 8.8 a number of times. It also works in 8.81 but we have been having similar login issues that other users have reported.
You use the ObjectId@ parameter to determine the type of object being printed and use that to suppress fields, sections etc.
Where there are specific formats required for different object types you can define multiple sections, (eg page headers, group headers, detail lines etc) and show or suppress based on the object type as required.
This can lead to very messy and complicated reports if there are a lot of differences and so you will need to make a decision as to the tradeoffs between having one huge report which is hard to maintain or a couple of simpler ones.
Given the load time issues, which seem to be related to the number of subreports etc you might also find some benefit in, for example, having a separate master layout for the documents that dont need to show batches and serial numbers and some of the final details such as downpayments and another layout for documents that need to show everything. Once again, you need to trade off here.
We have generally started with the invoice layout as our master since that has everything in it.
Hope this helps
Rob

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