Crystal report input prompt..for sub report

Hi All,
I developed crystal report and retreived the fields from the exsiting Query.Now for enhancing the report i must creat a sub report for th eexisting one.In this case iam getting 2 input prompts one for the old report and the other one is for the enhanced sub report .But the requirement is tha t, the report must get only one input prompt for both the reports. Is this can be possible from the Query end or the crystal report end?
YVL

Hi Vijayalakshmi
You can apply just one input parameter for the main report and then link your subreport with this parameter.
Once you link the subreport, you would get only one prompt for inputting parameter values.
This way you can optimize the performance of the report as well.
For more information about linking subreports you can refer to the user guide for the respective crystal reports version you are using.
Hope this helps!!!
Regards
Sourashree

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