Selecting group of parameters with one parameter

Question

Post Author: ME55ENGER
CA Forum: Formula
Hi, I'm a little new to Crystal (first report), so please bear with me.  I am trying to create a parameter for users to choose from different status types.  These status types are OPEN, CLOSED, COMPLETED, MONITORING, ESCALATED, and FLAGGED FOR QA.  The issue I am having is that I want the user to be able to select from all of these, as well as an OPEN - ALL and a CLOSED - ALL.  OPEN - ALL would include OPEN, MONITORING, ESCALATED, and FLAGGED FOR QA.  CLOSED - ALL would include CLOSED and COMPLETED.  I cannot figure out a formula to use in the select expert that will allow me to do this.  I have an option for ALL, which I used an IF-Then statement to implement (IF {?my param} = 'ALL' then {table.column} like '*' else {table.column} = {?my param}).  I cannot figure out how to accomplish selecting a certain group of these options with an IF-THEN.  Please Help!!!  Thanks.

Answer 1

Post Author: V361
CA Forum: Formula
I stole this from the sample reports in CR XI, hope it will give you some ideas.
if {?Country} = '...All' then  {Orders.Employee ID}={?Employee}else if {?Region} = '...All' then  {Orders.Employee ID}={?Employee} and  {Customer.Country} = {?Country}else if {?City} = '...All' then  {Orders.Employee ID}={?Employee} and  {Customer.Country} = {?Country} and  {Customer.Region} = {?Region}else  {Orders.Employee ID}={?Employee} and  {Customer.Country} = {?Country} and  {Customer.Region} = {?Region} and  {Customer.City} = {?City}