I've kind of been tossed into this world of Crystal Reports and have almost no understanding of how it works.

Right now what I need is to add in a parameter to a report template that the user running the report inputs. I've figured out how to add the parameter, but the problem is, it needs to go into 6 separate footers.

It is the same value in every footer, so rather than having the user input the same value 6 times when he/she runs the report, I'd like it to just be a single prompt.

I know this is possible, because there are other parameters in the report that are only prompted for once, but appear on each of the footers. Unfortunately, I wasn't the one that designed the template so I do not know how it is done. Very appreciative of any help you can provide.

Regards,
Josh

Edited by Didley - 08 Aug 2013 at 5:51am

This is what I'm referring to. Each of those "footers" contains the same parameters, but when the report is run, the user only has to enter/select a value for all of them once (except for the one I'm working on, Report number).

I believe that they are sub reports in the footers. The report window looks like this:

Report Header
Page Header
Details
Report Footer a
....
Report Footer h
Page Footer

In each of those footers there is a sub report with several of the same repeating parameters. When you run the report, it only asks a value of those parameters once. When I try to add a new parameter onto each sub report, I have to enter a value for each one even though they are always the same.

Edited by Didley - 08 Aug 2013 at 6:05am

once you link it you can open and edit each subreport and use the linked version inside that.