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DateTime suppress

I have a report that I need to suppress a date of 12/12/2012. Below is the crystal statement in the suppress details of the report. When I have just the first two if thens, the report runs fine. However the 3rd if then to suppress the dates does not. The information is pulled from a SQL database and I am using CR8 for my reports. The field in the SQL database is a DateTime field. Thanks in advanced.

BooleanVar bNotPrint := True;
IF {SchJob.JobStatus} = 0 THEN
bNotPrint := False
ELSE
IF IsNull ({SchJob.JobNumber}) THEN
bNotPrint := False
ELSE
IF {OpenJob.DueDate} = DATE(2012,12,12) THEN
bNotPrint := False
ELSE
bNotPrint;

frodoman

Possible it's a datetime comparison to a date issue. Try:

If CDate({OpenJob.DueDate}) = DATE(2012,12,12) Then...

This way if the DueDate is stored as 12/12/2002 11:59:59 your comparison will work...

perichards

ASKER

Even though the SQL format of the table says datetime, the value is still stored as just a date. I am not sure if that will make a difference or not. When I added the CDate CR8 said it expected a date-time here. I amy have miss led you. Sorry. Either way I am still stuck. anything else to try?

per

peter57r

At the risk of sounding stupid, Suppression formulas are usually written to give a value of True when you want to suppress and False when you want it to appear.
Are you taking this into account?

Pete

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perichards

ASKER

To be honest I am following a formula that was set inside a pre-built report. I am new to crystal and am a little unsure of the terminology used for their reports. I am a vb & access guy. This is all French to me. The first two are records that I do want and the third is records that I don't want. I did change it to true but the the records with the due date of 12/12/2012 still showed up on the report. Is there an order that the if..then's need to be in to suppress records properly? If there is a better way to write this I sure could use the help. Thanks again.

per

frodoman

You need to change the result of the last condition to TRUE then instead of setting it to FALSE...

Mike McCracken

Is the date field in question really a date time field. If so you will need to extract the date from the field and then compare.

Datepart({OpenJob.DueDate}) = DATE(2012,12,12)

mlmcc

Mike McCracken

Glad I could help

mlmcc