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psfin_mn Newbie Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 9	Topic: Details a, Details b, etc. Print in that order Posted: 30 Dec 2008 at 7:58am
	I have a Crystal 9 report, and I want the Details a to print followed by the Details b, followed by Details c, etc... But when the report actually prints, sometimes Details f prints first (followed by Details e, then Details a). How do I force the printing order to always be a, b, c, d, etc.?
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RitaInHood Newbie Joined: 07 Jul 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 25	Posted: 30 Dec 2008 at 12:01pm
	Pull up the "Change Group" dialog box for the grouping above the details, and change it from "Sort Ascending" to "In Specified Order" and type in your order. (You may need to add another sort group)
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psfin_mn Newbie Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 9	Posted: 30 Dec 2008 at 2:06pm
	I don't get how that works... When I try to use that, and I put in 'Named Group', it puts up the 'Enter Value(s)' box for all of the report parameters. Could you please further explain how this works? Thanks
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RitaInHood Newbie Joined: 07 Jul 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 25	Posted: 31 Dec 2008 at 1:35pm
	Let's say you have sales stages of "Contact", "Proposal", "Closed/Won", and "Closed/Lost". You want the records to always to report in that order. If you do a "sort ascending", it'll appear in the order Closed/lost Closed/won contact Proposal If you instead choose the "in specific order", you can type in contact Proposal Closed/lost Closed/won and it will always display in that order.
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psfin_mn Newbie Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 9	Posted: 02 Jan 2009 at 11:02am
	I think my question is not being understood... It's not that there is a field where the possible values should be printed in a certain order. Rather I have a Crystal form (in design view) where there is a Group Header that has 6 'Details' lines under it. Details a has several database fields within it, Details b has a formula for voucher comments, Details c has another formula, Details d has other database fields in it, and Details e has yet another formula in it. I need to have these Details lines always printing in that specific layout order. (but right now, they do not do that! sometime Details e prints out before Details a)
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