How to print multiple copies of a single report(label) based on a variable

Question

I have a crystal report v.9 linked to an excel file with multiple rows of information.  Each row contains the label information and one column has the quanity of each label to print.  What feature in crystal do I use and what is the command I will need?   The information changes on a daily basis so I need a formula. Thanks in advance.
Kurt

Answer 1

There have been a few posts that have answered this in the past.  (I know because I answered them! :-> )  You might want to search for them.
But basically, you want to do something like this in an SQL Command data source (MS SQL):
declare @loop int;
set @loop = 1;
  -- copy table structure (or otherwise create a temp table):
select * into #temp from table where numLabels < 0 and numLabels > 0;
while @loop < 20 -- or whatever a maximum number might reasonably be
begin
  insert into #temp select * from table where numLabels >= @loop
  set @loop - @loop + 1
end
select * from #temp order by name, address  -- something to keep copies of labels together
HTH,
Carl