Help: Crystal Report displays decimals on X-axis when published in Infoview

Question

Hi everyone
I've been banging my head on my keyboard trying to get past the following issue:
We have a Crystal Report (XI R2 SP3) containing a bar chart that has numbers on both the X- and Y-axis.
On the Y-axis I can control the "Number" settings to remove decimals after the comma. So far so good.
On the X-axis on the other, the numbers are the result of an extensive formula trying to breakdown
numbers into ranges. Numbers are always whole (no decimals). The X-Axis is an Ordinal scale, which
does not allow to set any number formatting. Numeric scale does not work in this case because it
compresses the entire chart into a few bars. And this is where the problem is:
In Crystal Reports I have a global setting for "Numbers" not to show any decimals. This works, when
generated in Crystal, I have no decimals past the comma in the graphs on the X-axis.
when I publish this report to Business Objects Infoview portal and schedule and run it there, all of a
sudden the PDF displays an X-axis that has 2 decimals past the comma (1234.00). It's driving me nuts.
I suspect this is a bug, because I've not managed to get rid of these decimals without a text-conversion in
the formula (does not suit me, I need data ordered properly).
Can anyone help? Has anyone had this issue?
Much appreciated!
Thanks.
The latest of version of my formula truncates and converts ToNumber. Nothing helps:
Tonumber(
truncate(
IIF (InStr ({Command.SUB_SPECIFICATION},'XF') > 0
    IIF ({Command.X_TIME} <= 300,300,
         IIF ({Command.X_TIME} <= 5000,
         Ceiling ({Command.X_TIME}, 200),10000
,IIF(InStr ({Command.SUB_SPECIFICATION},'XT') > 0 Or InStr
({Command.SUB_SPECIFICATION},'XY') > 0,
        IIF ({Command.X_TIME} <= 1000,Ceiling ({Command.X_TIME}, 50),
             IIF ({Command.X_TIME} <= 5000,
             Ceiling ({Command.X_TIME}, 200),10000
        IIF ({Command.X_TIME} <= 300,Ceiling({Command.X_TIME},10),
             IIF ({Command.X_TIME} <= 5000,
             Ceiling ({Command.X_TIME}, 200),10000
Edited by: FREDERIC AGOSTINI on Nov 6, 2008 3:43 PM

Answer 1

Hi Frederic,
I tired the following on my machine having CR XI R2,  just as a sample report i created the following formulas,
Reproducing the issue:
u2022 Create a formula field u2013 FiscalCurrentHeader u2013
"FY " & year(DateAdd ("m",+6,CurrentDate))
u2022 Use a text box and place this formula field
Summary for {@FiscalCurrentHeader}
u2022 In the designer, the string exports to .pdf as 'FY 2009' , but on the scheduling/distribution server (BOE XI), the string exports to .pdf as 'FY 2,009.00' (as a number).
Cause:
u2022 The datatype of the field u2013 FiscalCurrentHeader is considered as number, because of which when scheduling/distribution server (BOE XI), the string exports to .pdf as 'FY 2,009.00' (as a number).
Resolution:
u2022 To remove the comma use ToText in the formula
"FY " & ToText(Year(DateAdd ("m",+6,CurrentDate)), "0")
u2022 To remove the comma we can even use
u201CFY u201D & ToText(Year(DateAdd ("m",+6,CurrentDate)), "0","")
The last "" defines your 000 separator.
Try using ToText in place of ToNumber.
I hope this works at your end.
Regards,
Abhijeet Taskar.
Edited by: Abhijeet Taskar on Nov 6, 2008 6:02 PM