Prior Year Sales vs. Prior Period Sales

Using Crystal Reports XI, connecting to an Access Database.
I have a report that compares 2007 to 2008 sales for the most recent 4 weeks. It summarizes sales first by Item Class (group 3), then by Item Type (group 2), then by Region (group 1). Some Classes of items have sales in both 2008 and 2007, but some don't. For those Item Classes that have no 2007 sales, I want to show the most recent 4 weeks in 2008 vs. the 4 weeks just prior to that. In other words, if the report is showing week 10 to 13 in the 2008 column, I want to show weeks 9 to 12 in the 2007 provided that there are no 2007 sales for that item class.
I can do this easily enough for Item Class, however I am having trouble getting accurate sub-totals for Item Type and Region.
What I have now is this formula to show Net Sales for "2007". {Command.class} is Item Class. @PriYr4wkSale is the real 2007 gross sales. @Prev4wkSale is the week 9 to 12 gross sales. @PriYr4wkSpl is the spoils, which I add to gross sales to get net.
if Sum ({@PriYr4wkSale}, {Command.class}) > 0 then
Sum ({@PriYr4wkSale}, {Command.class}) + Sum ({@PriYr4wkSpl}, {Command.class})
else
Sum ({@Prev4wkSale}, {Command.class}) + Sum ({@Prev4wkSpl}, {Command.class})
If I change this to summarize over {@ItemType} I get erroneous data because {@PriYr4wkSale} is always positive, so the formula doesn't pick up sales for the Previous 4 wk period.
Does anyone have any ideas for a formula I can place in the details section (and then subtotal by group) that will show the sales amount conditionally, based on whether or not an item has prior year sales? The problem I've run into with this approach is that any given detail record (say in 2008) doesn't know if there were prior year sales or not).
Edit: How can I make the post narrower, so it fits within one browser window, width-wise?
Edited by: M Anderson on Jun 3, 2008 1:12 AM
Edited by: M Anderson on Jun 3, 2008 1:13 AM

Hi "M",
I know when I've tried something similar, the problem was that the formula didn't work because it wasn't getting a result of "0" (i.e. no sales) but "null".
Try:
if not isnull(Sum ({@PriYr4wkSale}, {Command.class})) then...
Heather

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