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		<title>Using formula fields and calculations in the selection formula</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 21:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently needed a selection formula that automatically selected the last &#8220;half month&#8221;.&#160;&#160; In other words if the report was run in the first half of a month it should return the last half of the previous month.&#160; If the report was run in the last half of a month then the report should return [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calculating the first weekday of the month</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 12:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my customers has reports scheduled to run every weekday. The rule is that all month long it should pull the dates for the current month. But once a month, at the beginning of the month, they want to run the entire previous month. So I wrote their selection formula to say &#8220;If today [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t start your formula names with spaces.</title>
		<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2345</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 02:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Formula names can contain any characters you want, including numbers, symbols and spaces. But I just found a reason not to use a space as the first character of a formula name. A customer recently tried to modify a formula in an old report, and was prompted to log into the repository. She sent me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on controlling colors from formulas</title>
		<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2325</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently wrote about a post about controlling the color of multiple objects from one formula.&#160;&#160; One of my newsletter readers took the idea and ran with it and designed a custom function for his repository: ======================================== Just got the &#8216;Underground News&#8217;. The tip on creating formulas for set colors is fantastic &#8211; never occurred [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stripping numbers off the end of a string</title>
		<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2206</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently a customer needed to group records using part of a code field. The code field had alpha characters followed by a series of numbers. They wanted to to strip off any numbers on the end and group using only the initial string portion of the value. In the past I have done things like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Case sensitivity in Crystal Reports &#8211; revisited.</title>
		<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2319</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always mention case sensitivity in my Crystal Reports classes. My normal comment is that CR formula comparisons are case sensitive with the exception of the selection formula, which is usually NOT case sensitive.&#160; I even wrote about this here, last month.&#160; So I was surprised last week in my Advanced class when our formulas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Controlling the color of many objects from one formula</title>
		<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2313</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 04:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past few days I have been helping a customer develop a GANTT style chart in Crystal Reports.&#160; The challenge was that Crystal&#8217;s normal Gantt chart doesn&#8217;t allow multiple bar segments on the same row.&#160; So I was showing them how to create a GANTT chart using formulas and specially formatted summary fields. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A total of a formula instead of a formula of totals.</title>
		<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2312</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Say you have several columns of numbers that get added together like Price, Tax and Shipping. At the end of a customer group you would have three subtotals. You might decide to write a formula that adds those three subtotals together to get the combined total for the customer. It would work fine but there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Case sensitivity in Crystal Reports</title>
		<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2307</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you specify field values in Crystal Reports formulas do you have to match the case?&#160; Well, it depends on where you are. Take this example: {Name} = &#8220;Joe&#8221; It would only be true when the first letter was upper case and the other two were lower case.&#160;&#160;&#160; So what if you have values in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grouping transactions by season</title>
		<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2245</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I was asked if there was a simple way to group records into Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter.&#160; There are several ways but I think this is the simplest.&#160; I convert the month and day into a number by multiplying the month by 100 and then adding the day number.&#160; This gives every day [...]]]></description>
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