Summary fields on chart expert

Post Author: training2go
CA Forum: Charts and Graphs
Hello,
I noticed that summary fields that are used on the report do not appear on the chart expert as a field that you can select. Did I do something wrong or is this the way the chart expert works in Crystal Reports 2008? Thank you.

Hi, Anne-Marie;
You may be running into a common issue that is docuemented here:
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Regards,
Jonathan
Edited by: Jonathan Parminter on Mar 16, 2009 8:03 AM

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Rsults (and some further formatting of the Layout) below.
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Post Author: lazarus
CA Forum: Formula
Just want to say that i'm glad this forum exists. Many a late night has been spend trawling the net for solutions to CR issues which ultimately never get resolved. Hopefully this lovely forum can get me and the rest of us some sleep occasionally! :o)
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Is it possible to summarise summary fields?
I have compiled a report which does a comparison between a value (valueA) and a sum of values (valueB).
(ValueA) is displayed in the group section as this is tied to the main identifier of the record, while (valueB) is a sum of some records linked to the main identifier (one to many relationship)
The Group footer of the main identifier has a single record summarising the above, including (valueA) and the sum of (valueB) for the main identifier. Here i have a calculation to find the difference between (valueA) and the sum of (valueB) for each main identifier. The result is (valueC).
Is it at all possible to summarise the result of the calculation above? i.e. Sum (valueC) on the next grouping? Crystal doesn't seem to allow me to, but i'm not sure if someone has tried this or found an alternative method of doing this.
All help/suggestions much appreciated.
(Sorry for the confusing description of this issue. Couldn't think of a better way to describe what i'm trying to do! )

Post Author: lazarus
CA Forum: Formula
Thanks for the reply. Eventually worked it out. Messy use of formulae got me there in the end, but the users don't see that so its all good!
Thanks again!

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