Crosstab Conditional Formatting

I am not sure if this is the correct location for this question, so I apologize in advance.
I am using a trial of crystal reports to see if it will work for our ad hoc reporting needs - I am creating cross-tab report with activities across the top and groupings down the left. From the database, I pull each activity, its group and the color I am trying to code the background.
The formula I am trying to use is:
IF {Tasks.Cell Color} = "Green" Then
crGreen
ELSE
crWhite
This turns all of the cells green, not just the cells associated with the group and activity.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Chris

hi Chris,
in order to access the color field values which change on a grid cell to grid cell basis, you need to add the cell color field to the grid.
if you are trying to color a summary field, then put the color field in the Summarized Fields dialogue and change the Summary type to Maximum. you can later suppress it and then shrink the vertical size to as small as possible.
now you have access to that color value in your cross-tab. if you want to change the summary that you already had in the cross-tab, you can go to the background formula again and change the formula to something like
IF GridValueAt (currentrowindex, currentcolumnindex, currentsummaryindex+1) = "Green"
THEN
crGreen
ELSE
crWhite

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CrossTab Conditional Format

Hello All!
Hoping you can help me out
I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to set a baseline condition for the beginning (Jan). Example 75. Then for each following month the crosstab would read the previous month and highlight the cell red or green depending it the month was lower or higher than the previous month.
Example Jan would be set to 75 (baseline) and would be red if it didn't meet that. Then the follow months would be red or green if it was higher or lower than the previous month. So I need it to be dynamic (to be able to read the previous value).
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Feb
March
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50
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Bob
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Cindy
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75
77
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Thank you!

Hi Cj,
Here's what you need to do:
Right-click the summary field > Format Field > Font tab > Click the formula button beside 'Color' and use this code:
If CurrentColumnIndex = 1 then
if CurrentFieldValue <= 75 then crRed else crGreen
else
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Error while processing conditional formatting formula in crosstab

This conditional formatting formula must return one of the following Color Constants: ' A number, currency amount, boolean, date, time, date-time, or string is expected here. Details: errorKind
The above error is displayed on the the Business Objects Report Server when running my report.
The XI server version information is as follows:
BusinessObjects Enterprise XI Release 2
Business Objects
11.5.0.3135
20060628
Crystal Reports XI Release 2
Business Objects
11.5.0.31327
20060628
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The error is being generated for the following conditional formatting formula which is in my crosstab:
evaluateafter ({@concatAppTypeAppMethod});
if CurrentRowIndex = 1 then
    color(0,153,153)
else if CurrentRowIndex = 2 then
    color(168,146,101)
else if CurrentRowIndex = 3 then
    color(0,51,153)
else if CurrentRowIndex = 4 then
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else
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This formula is applied via the Crosstab "Format Field>Font" tab. In the report developer (Crystal 2008) the report runs without error. When deployed to the server it fails with the above error.
Heres the details of {@concatAppTypeAppMethod}:
whileprintingrecords;
"Designs filed " + {Command.APPLICATION_METHOD}
The crosstab is structured as:
Row = {@concatAppTypeAppMethod}
Column = {@getMonth}
Summary = Count of {@concatAppTypeAppMethod}
Details for {@getMonth}:
right(totext(year({Command.ACN_COMPLETED_DATE}),"#"),2) + totext(month({Command.ACN_COMPLETED_DATE}),"0#")
The above functions Row i.e. {@concatAppTypeAppMethod} and {@getMonth} use fields from the SQL command.
{@getMonth} parses the ACN_COMPLETED_DATE field, obtains the record month and year and concatenates these as a string which can be displayed as follows in the crosstab:
May-08, Jun-08 etc.
{@concatAppTypeAppMethod} parses the APPLICATION_METHOD field and obtains the application filing method i.e. Online or Internally and concatenates the pretext "Designs filed " to the filing method (also a string).
I have tried various combinations of whilereadingrecords, whileprintingrecords and evaluateafter() with no success. The problem occurs because the conditional formatting formula is being executed before the records being formatted are ready.
I believe this is a problem with the crystal reports software and/or XI server.
Please prove me wrong.

Hi Raghavendra,
Thanks for your prompt answer! Can you confirm? Is it because I'm using calculated members in the report and these are not support by the XI server specified in my error report above?
If so, do you have any suggestions with regard to how I might be able to create a graph with the following attributes:
Show summary (count) of records per month per application method (i.e. online or internal. this is a database field retruned by the SQL command). In addition I need to add a series to the graph that shows the totals number of records per month irrespective of the relative application method (i.e. sum of online and internal) and finally I need to show the total number of online applications (i.e. application method = online) as a percentage of the total number of applications for the month.

Conditional Format in crosstab report

Hello All,
Is it possible to do a condditional format in cross tab report.It works for a table but not crosstab report.
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</ROW>
<ROW>
<DAY>Day 2</DAY>
<MONTH>Jan</MONTH>
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<MONTH>Jan</MONTH>
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</ROW>
<ROW>
<DAY>Day 1</DAY>
<MONTH>Feb</MONTH>
<VAL>12</VAL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<DAY>Day 2</DAY>
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<ROW>
<DAY>Day 3</DAY>
<MONTH>Feb</MONTH>
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<ROW>
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<DAY>Day 1</DAY>
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</ROW>
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<ROW>
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Hello,
I think I have a straight forward problem, but after reading the instructions I can't seem to make this work.
I am using BI 10.1.3.4.1
I have a crosstab that I have build as an RTF template that looks like the following
name
rolename, priv name, priv desc muser
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CA Forum: Charts and Graphs
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Crystal 2008 12.0.0.549
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the simplest way to do this I guess you can provide a template for your Excel sheet, where you can set the conditional format there.
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Hi all,
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