creating a list of search strings in crystal reportscrystal reports

Do you really need to run a separate report for each drawer, or can you just have one report that reads all of the drawer data for a truck and is grouped by the drawer?  If you want the drawers on separate pages, you can have the report start a new page after each group footer, and even reset the page number if you like.

 James

I agree with James.  Using a subreport will be slower.  How much depends on the data you have.

If you are trying to produce separate reports for each drawer there are 3rd-party tools that can burst the report into separate reports while printing.

mlmcc

I think I want to go with the sub-report routine. I am using perimeter as the memory variable to search on and wonder if I should use a formula field instead?

I want to change the value of the memory variable with some sort of statement and where would I put it

I am envisioning :
Side = r
Bin = 11
report
Side =r
Bin =12
report
Side =l
Bin = 11
report

Thanks for all the help
George

Where do the Side and Bin values come from?  Are you going to read some table, like a "Drawer" table that contains a list of the drawers in each truck?  Or is there a preset list of values (eg. you always want r-11, r-12, r-13, etc.)?  Or does the user enter a list of drawers?  If the user is selecting the drawers, what do they enter?  Do they enter drawers (eg. r-11 and r-12), or separate Side and Bin values, or something else?

 James

The drawers are numbered in the database as side (side of truck) and Bin (number) both are in the database. this report will be static in that the user will have no choice as to what bins will be selected.

George