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Getting an Average from a group summary formula

I have a report that is grouped by Department which lists employee production metrics and hours worked. I use a simple formula to generate their work output, known as Lines Per Hour, which is essentially Lines/Hour just as it reads. For the Department footer I have a subtotal which has the Lines/Hour for the department and use a similar formula to reach that number. I would like to also generate an Average Lines/Hour but I am unable to summarize a summary field due to the way Crystal processes the report.

I understand there is some sort of two pass system to crunching formulas in Crystal but never having dealt with the "second pass" I'm a little unsure how to proceed with doing this. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
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Mike McCracken

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This works for a grand total but it seems to just give me a running total for the group totals which is where i need to average. The grand total average isn't really relative to this situation as each dept. is completely different sets of work. I'm looking to find the departmental average as a sort of rough guideline for what the department does on a daily basis.

Basically the report works like this:

Report Header - Title, etc
Group 1 Headers - suppressed
Details - suppressed
Group 1 Footer - Displays grouped department totals, need the average lines per hour to appear here
Report Footer - Grand totals for relevant things like orders, lines, packages, etc

Thanks for your help thus far!

Mike McCracken

SOrry I misunderstood what you wanted.

If you could do it, what is the formula for the average you need?

mlmcc

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