Help with Crystal 8.5 formula needed...please help!!

Question

Post Author: wibble1
CA Forum: Formula
I have a problem with a formula I am using to count records in a group with certain conditions. Here is the formula:
whileprintingrecords;
IF({Calls.PriorityID} = 2 and  not(right(stringvar Types,6) = '135.00')) THEN numbervar NoHigh := numbervar NoHigh + 1ELSE numbervar NoHigh
The formula is placed in a group footer and the types variable is just a string made up of values from each record in that group. So it could contain 122.00 135.00 132.00...etc. There are four of these formulas in the footer of the group, each counting a different priority.
Mostly this works fine but the problem is that if the last item in the group is of that priority, it counts it twice when the result is displayed in the footer of the following group. To give an outline of what the report is trying to do: The above formula is counting issues of a particular priority....so this group is grouped on each issue. The group after this is the date of the issue which is grouped by month. This is where I want to display the counts for issues in the month, and it is hear where the last call in the group is counted twice. Hope this makes sense. I am reporting of a SQL server 2000 database.
Thanks

Answer 1

Post Author: bettername
CA Forum: Formula
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but would using a formula to show the current state of the variable be better when that's all you want to do (ie: display it).
I always have a something like a "priority counter - add" formula (which does what yours does), and a "priority counter - show" formula to show the current state of the variable.  That way you can be sure it's not adding to it when it shouldn't be...
whileprintingrecords;
numbervar NoHigh