Concatinating Field value in Crystal report

Question

hi all,
if we have four fields in report like
ItemCode        Item Name     Color     Thickness
111                 Abc               Green      1
111                 Abc               Gray        1
111                 Abc               Pink        1
three fields itemcode,itemname and thickness are having same values but value in color filed is not same that why returning 3 rows.
But I want to show the result in One row as
ItemCode  Item Name  Color                                  Thickness
111           Abc           Green,Gray,Pink                              1
How I can Do this.
Please Help Its Urgent
Thanks
Neetu

Answer 1

Group on Item Code and then create a string running total incuding a separator for the color in the details section and a display formula in the Group Footer to display the running total results. If there is going to be more than 1 Item Code in the report then you will need to create a formula to reset the running total value.
For example;
String Running Total in the details section;
WhilePrintingRecords;
stringvar clr:= clr + {color field} + ',';
mid(clr,length(clr)-1)
The last line will get rid of the comma separator at the end of the string.
Display Formula in the Group Footer;
WhilePrintingRecords;
stringvar clr;
{Item Code} + ' ' + {Item Name} + ' '+ clr + ' ' +
Reset Formula in the Group Header;
WhilePrintingRecords;
stringvar clr:= ''
Edited by: Graham Cunningham on Aug 1, 2008 7:48 AM