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Show sum on Maxium Date

I am using Crystal X and I have two tables {agedar} and {client} and trying to show a sum of payments made on the latest date for a specific client.

What I did so far was create two groups based on {client.client#} and {agedar.lastpaydate} and in the detail line put in {client.client#}, {agedar.lastpaydate} and {agedar.amount} with a sum of {agedar.amount} in the {agedar.lastpaydate} group footer. So currently the reports looks something likes this.

Header Line  Client #     Last Pay Date         Amount
Detail Line     00155       10/5/2008               100.00
Detail Line     00155       10/5/2008                 90.00
Footer                           10/5/2008                190.00
Detail Line     00155       10/8/2008                 75.00
Detail Line     00155       10/8/2008                 10.00
Footer Line                    10/8/2008                  85.00
Detail Line     00155      10/10/2008                99.00
Detail Line     00155      10/10/2008                10.00
Footer                          10/10/2008               109.00

How do I make it so the report only shows the maxium date {agedar.lastpaydate} entries? Many thanks in advance to all you experts on Crystal X.


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Mike McCracken

Try this idea

In the client group header add a formula

WhilePrintingRecords;
Global BooleanVar SuppressDateGroup;
SuppressDateGroup := False;
''

Change the date grpoup to sort descending

In the Date Group Footer add a formula
WhilePrintingRecords;
Global BooleanVar SuppressDateGroup;
SuppressDateGroup := True;
''

Right click the date group header in the left margin
Click SECTIION EXPERT
Click the formula button next to SUPPRESS
WhilePrintingRecords;
Global BooleanVar SuppressDateGroup;
SuppressDateGroup

Repeat for the DETAIL and DATE GROUP FOOTER

mlmcc
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Hi ml,

Thanks for helping but when I follow your directions it looks like when I run the report it's only pulling in the first or minimum date as opposed to latest or maxium date.
Did you set the sort order for the date group to descending.

You are correct, it will only get the records for the first date it finds.  By sorting descending, the latest dated record is found first.

mlmcc
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When I click on "Group Sort Expert" and then select the date group, there is no option to sort by date, it will only let me sort by sum of the payment.
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Not in the GROUP SORT EXPERT use the group expert

or from the report
Right click the GROUP HEAER in the left margin
Click CHANGE GROUP
Choose sort order DESCENDING

mlmcc
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ASKER

When I changed the the sort from ascending to descending, it went from a sum of the earlest payments to, the Sum disappearing but it does list all the payments individually which are the latest payment dates.


 
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You should be able to put the sum back in.

mlmcc
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Is group footer 2 set for conditional suppress?

mlmcc
What is the solutiion?

mlmcc