How do I prompt a date parameter for each piece of equipment?

Question

Hi,
I've developed a report that displays all of the invoices, over a selected date range, for each piece of equipment. There are 25 pieces of equipment. At present, when the report is run there is just one date range parameter. I select the date range and get all invoices that are within the date range. However, if I want to ensure the invoice-related data from January 31, 2012 (for example) for Equipment #2 is returned I need to have January 31, 2012 in my date range. However, I wanted the cutoff date fro Equipment #1 to be January 28, 2012. Under the current design the result set for Equipment #1 will include invoice data up to January 31, 2012.
I would like to select a unique date range PER piece of equipment within the same report.
For example:
Equipment #1 - January 1, 2012 to January 28, 2012
Equipment #2 - January 1, 2012 to January 31, 2012
and so on.
Is this possible? Basically, how do I tell the report the data range I want for each piece of equipment?
thx!
Mark

Answer 1

Hi,
I am not sure of how you would be able to filter records using 2 different parameters.
You can get 2 different parameters for Date dynamically with 2 different data sets.
You need to create 2 formula in Business View Manager , data foundation as below:
if {Customer.Country}='Australia' then {Customer.Customer ID}
and
if {Customer.Country}='Brazil' then {Customer.Customer ID}
Here instead of Country you can use your Equipment Field and respective values.
Save the Data Foundation
In Business Element create 2 Business Elements for these above formula.
And Create 2 LOVs for these Business Element above and schedule them.
Now in crystal reports you can create 2 Dynamic Parameter and use the above created LOV respectively.
I am not sure how you would be able to filter and link the parameters to your report.
Hope this may work or give you a thought.
Cheers,
Kiran.