Using crystal reports to generate invoices

Question

Post Author: samme
CA Forum: General
I'm writing a report for a client who wants to print multiple invoices using crystal reports.  The invoice needs to sort in date order, one date and information associated with that date on each page.  Each page has a subtotal since multiple items/services are linked ot one date.  The last page of the invoice needs to have the total and should at the bottom of the page with the last subtotal.  Not onlastrecord does not work because if the user prints multiple invoices, crystal doesn't see the "last record" until the last record of the last invoice.
The client wants the normal invoice information on the first page of the invoice:  Company Logo, Customer Address, Company Info, Invoice #, Date, etc. as well as the column headers - quantity, unit of measure, price, etc.
On all other pages of the invoice, the client wants, the company logo, the invoice # and the column headers.
I have the report grouped by invoice number and then by a date formula.  I cannot seem to get where I need to be with this invoice and have been working on it for some time.  Can anyone give me some direction please..... 
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 16:46:48 GMT, "Bill Bradley"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>I know. We thought that the Report Builder would be the way to go,
since
>ART didn't do too much for us. You guys poorly document it, and,
show no
>examples of using it to build a report. In addition, it'd be nice if
>SOMEONE would come up with a list of what tables show what. While
Novell
>may have a detailed list of things in the ZFD docs, it's pretty much
so
>detailed and complex that, it's next to useless. I've resorted to
doing
>huge dumps of things to a csv, then, using CR or Excel to generate
some kind
>of report.
>
>The whole process is not as easy as it should be, seeing that we paid
money
>to get a reporting vehicle.
>
>As comparison, SMS isn't any easier, but, there's more documentation
on it,
>so, when you're forced to roll your own report, it's a clearer
path...
I do understand, I'm not a programmer either :-(
the company who wrote report builder is Digital Metaphors, they have a
very good
training application and additional detailed information of how to
write
reports.
The CIM schema is I agree Cr** (well not easy) and without the detail
that
Novell provide it doesn't work.
I hope that a friend of mine is going to provide the compromise that
you and I
are looking for. Namely the ability to create the SQL queries that
ART can
make, with a simple report system. Keep an eye on caledonia.net for
an
announcement for ART4 (Derived from but unrelated to Salford
Software's
product) :-)
Tim
No Direct e-Mail Please!
Tim Heywood
Independent Consultant
Scotland
Novell Support Connection SYSOP
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In practice they are different!