<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ASCII"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>The Crystal Reports&#174; Underground &#187; Method</title>
	<atom:link href="http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/category/method/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru</link>
	<description>Independent news, tips and thoughts from a Crystal Reports expert</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 21:55:10 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2</generator>
		<item>
		<title>Using formula fields and calculations in the selection formula</title>
		<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2360</link>
		<comments>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2360#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 21:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Formulas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Method]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kenhamady.com/cru/?p=2360</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2360/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Calculating the first weekday of the month</title>
		<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2357</link>
		<comments>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2357#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 12:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Formulas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Method]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kenhamady.com/cru/?p=2357</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2357/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Exporting to Excel when you have a subreport.</title>
		<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2353</link>
		<comments>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2353#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 02:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Method]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tips]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kenhamady.com/cru/?p=2353</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Exporting Crystal Reports to Excel can be tricky. I have written several articles on techniques to make it easier. But it gets even trickier when a subreport is involved. Without a subreport I have found that you can get a clean export by using the &#8220;Data Only&#8221; option. But this doesn&#8217;t work with a subreport. [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2353/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Creating the text-shadow effect with Crystal Reports fonts</title>
		<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2347</link>
		<comments>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2347#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Method]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tips]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kenhamady.com/cru/?p=2347</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a clever tip I just received from a blog reader who is also a Crystal Reports developer. He wanted to create a title with something that looks like the &#8220;text-shadow&#8221; property.&#160; He found that using an image didn&#8217;t print as clearly as a true font so he came up with a clever way [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2347/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Printing QR Codes within your Crystal Reports</title>
		<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2342</link>
		<comments>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2342#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Application Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Method]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Products]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kenhamady.com/cru/?p=2342</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have written before about using Bar Codes in Crystal Reports, but recently two different customers have asked me about including QR codes on their reports.&#160; For those of you who have not seen them, QR codes are the square scan codes that have small boxes in each&#160; corner.&#160; Here is a QR Code for [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2342/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Making SQL commands more efficient</title>
		<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2340</link>
		<comments>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2340#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 02:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Method]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tips]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kenhamady.com/cru/?p=2340</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In most cases I find it more efficient to let Crystal generate the SQL for reports.&#160; This makes the reports simpler for most CR users to create. &#160;It is also easier to add additional fields, and the Visual Linking window makes the query structure easier to understand. Finally, in most cases, the performance is essentially [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2340/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>More on controlling colors from formulas</title>
		<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2325</link>
		<comments>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2325#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Formulas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Method]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kenhamady.com/cru/?p=2325</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2325/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Creating a hanging indent</title>
		<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2264</link>
		<comments>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2264#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Method]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tips]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kenhamady.com/cru/?p=2264</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes there are text blocks on your reports that contain more then one line of text (notes, memo fields, comments, etc.).&#160; When you format any multi-line text field, you have a tab of options called&#160; &#8216;paragraph&#8217; formatting. The first 3 settings on this tab allow you to determine how far the text block should be [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2264/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Stripping numbers off the end of a string</title>
		<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2206</link>
		<comments>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2206#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Formulas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Method]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kenhamady.com/cru/?p=2206</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2206/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Dynamic parameter limit on &#8220;list of values&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2316</link>
		<comments>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2316#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Method]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tips]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kenhamady.com/cru/?p=2316</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Crystal limits how many values you have to choose from when you use a dynamic parameter.&#160; The default limit is 1,000.&#160; To show more than 1000 values you have to add a registry key called &#8216;LOV&#8217; in the CR path for Database options.&#160; This needs to be done on each PC that will be running [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2316/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

<!-- Dynamic page generated in 0.437 seconds. -->
<!-- Cached page generated by WP-Super-Cache on 2012-05-21 20:04:24 -->

