Sorting Issues in Crystal

Question

Post Author: Nazran
CA Forum: General
Forgive me as I am a Crystal Novice:
VB app writes data to a temp database that Crystal 8.5 reports on.
Database table has two fields (Table.Number and Table.Surpress)
Table.Number is a long int counting number of records in table.Table.Surpress is yes/no field.
Report needs to count and display record numbers.
So if sample data is
Record Number Surpress1          1          No2          2          Yes3          3          No4          4          Yes5          5          No6          6          Yes
The report would hide the surpressed fields. However I need report to count and display the 3 non surpressed fields (1,3,5) as
Report123
To do the count I inherited this formula.
if {table.Suppress} = False then NumberVar LN := LN + 1else LN := LN + 0;
This all works beautifully in the report preview inside Crystal. However when the report is launched from within the VB app the sorting is not correct. It might be something like:
Report231
The report has no grouping. It is page headers and detail items. The report is sorting on the formula.
Any ideas why sorting is different when launched from within the vb app?

Answer 1

Post Author: yangster
CA Forum: General
Something you could try is to group on record number and then suppress the detail and group footer section.This would force the report to order by record number.Also in your formula you don't need the else part of your statement. The variable won't be increased by one if the value evaluates to true anyways.