I'm a novice to Crystal and have version XI. Any help is greatly appreciated. Here is the problem I've encountered:

I need to suppress the MAIN report's Detail Section.  When I suppress or hide the Detail section , then it seems to disable
the running of the sub report SubReportReplate. When this happens, then I can't get the ReplateDownTime value I need to use in another subreport. Please see code below. I also tried just suppressing the subreport alone and that disables the subreport processing also. Once again ReplateDownTime doesn't get calculated.

If I don't suppress or hide MAIN Report Detail Section, then everything is great except I have all this detail output from
the the sub report that I don't want to see.

I thought suppress just hid the data display, but was still got executed.

SUBREPORT  SubReportReplate:

 Details Section:

  Formula ReplateSum:  (suppressed)
   Shared NumberVar ReplateDownTime;
   If  (<condition>)
   Then
    ReplateDownTime := ReplateDownTime + {<database value>}
   Else
    ReplateDownTime
  End Formula

 Report Footer:

  Formula ReplateDisplay: 
   Shared NumberVar ReplateDownTime;
   ReplateDownTime
  End Formula

MAIN REPORT:

 Details Section:

  Formula ReplateInit:
   Shared NumberVar ReplateDownTime := 0
  End Formula

  Call SubReportReplate

 Group Footer:

  Formula ReplateVariableDisplay:
   Shared NumberVar ReplateDownTime;
   ReplateDownTime
  End Formula

It worked, thanks for your help.