Crystal Reports 8.5 Subreport Linking issue

Post Author: Evans
CA Forum: General
Product: Crystal Reports 8.5
Version: 8.5.0.217 and 8.5.3.975 (tried both)
Patches: Service Pack 3
OS: Win XP pro
Database: SQL 2k
I have a report with 3 sub-reports. The main report has no data source, all the data is coming from the 3 sub-reports. The main report asks for 4 parameters and these are passed to the sub-reports. That part is going ok.
The issue is that I also need to pass in a static value for the last parameter of each of the sub reports. Each of the sub reports is pulling data from the same stored procedure where the last parameter is a flag to tell the stored procedure which portion of the data it needs. I created 3 formulas with the values of 1.00, 2.00, and 3.00 and I was passing these to the sub-reports. The issue Iu2019m running into is that CR isnu2019t attempting to run the stored procedure if I link in those formula values. Itu2019s not that CR is trying to run the stored procedure and failing, itu2019s not even trying. If I set up a parameter and link it then it runs, or if I donu2019t link anything to the last parameter of the sub-report it will run (in both cases it will prompt the user for the last parameter). Because of the simplicity of what Iu2019m trying to do it feels like Iu2019m running into a bug. Any help would be appreciated.

Post Author: Evans
CA Forum: General
Originally the stored procedure had the last parameter as an integer. I tried everything with the formulas, CDBL(1.00) ToNumber(1.00) 1.00 1 hoping it just wasn't recognizing that the value needed to be a number but nothing worked. I changed the stored procedure to require a VARCHAR for the last parameter, updated the report and it worked for me.

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