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		<title>Mixing single values and ranges in the select expert</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 02:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a trick I teach my students to help them remember Boolean (true/false) syntax.&#160; I have them enter criteria into the select expert and then click the &#8220;Show Formula&#8221;&#160; button to see the same criteria written in Crystal formula syntax.&#160; So if you forget how to write a formula that does &#8220;between&#8221;, &#8220;is one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reportapalooza</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months back I was invited by SAP&#8217;s PR group to be one of the &#8220;Crystal solutions experts&#8221; in an SAP sponsored competition.&#160; The goal was to promote the CR product line and let some experts show off their reporting skills.&#160; I was intrigued.&#160; But thanks to my customers I have had a very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Setting the RGB color of multiple fields at the same time</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my customers had a dozen or so formula fields used as headings throughout a long report.&#160; He wanted to be able to adjust the color of the font assigned to all of these objects in one place.&#160; So we created a formula that stored three numeric values like this and put it into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Embedding an XSD into an XML file</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 01:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a follow-up to an earlier post about reading XML File with Crystal Reports.&#160; One of the main things I mentioned at the time was the lack of documentation.&#160; I have since found the following articles that have helped a great deal:
Structuring XML Data for the Crystal Reports XI Native XML Driver
Using ODBC XML [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free download of Xcelsius</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 03:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife was reading something called &#8220;deal news&#8221; and told me that there was a free download for something from SAP.&#160;&#160; It turned out to be Xcelsius (under its new name).&#160;&#160; I downloaded it&#160; just to have it but I probably won&#8217;t have time to play with it for a while since CR consulting is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fixed length text exports using Cut Light</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have struggled many times while helping customers create fixed length text files from Crystal Reports.  These files are standardized files used to transfer data from remote systems into centralized systems.  Banks, insurance companies and government agencies often require certain business to submit data in fixed length files so they can be imported [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RPT management utilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wanted to:
1) Find all the reports that use a particular table, field or calculation?
2) Compare two versions of a report to see what was changed?
3) Make the same change to a group of reports?
The more reports you have, the more likely that you will face these challenges, and you can solve problems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CR Server runs SSRS Reports?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just read a blog post by Blair Wheadon of SAP.&#160; They want to encourage migration from Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services to Crystal Reports so they have introduced a way to run SSRS reports from within the CR Server environment.&#160; This is intended to cushion the transition and means that you can get your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Correction to Formula 19 (Finding last Friday of the Month)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 03:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just heard from Roberto Brum from Brazil who found a way to simplify my Formula #19.&#160; This is a formula that you can use to find the last Friday of any month (or any other weekday).&#160; I liked his approach so I put it side by side with my original formula for testing. &#160; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unlocking the chart &#8220;marker size&#8221; property</title>
		<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/1195</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A customer had a line chart with square markers on the line.&#160; We went to change the size of the markers using the &#8220;Appearance&#8221; tab under Chart Options.&#160; We found we couldn&#8217;t make the change stick. We could change other properties&#160; (marker shape, line thickness, line color, etc) but changes to the marker size were [...]]]></description>
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