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CR8 Listing Question (Fairly Simple I Think)

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nervous2

IS-IT--Management
Feb 24, 2003
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I have a stock report for my company which comes from a central database. I am now offering a new system where we will buy product back from our customers, if our stock is low or out while a customer may be sitting on dead stock. I have created an Excel file which will be distributed to all customers listing their dead stock, where I will collect all the data and accumulate it into one database and add it to my existing report.


I would like to see my existing report in full as it is now, for the products which are located at a different site / customer site I'd like them listed in the same designated area as the existing report but (embedded in the existing report) highlighted in another colour, therefore it the product would be listed a second time in another colour so staff knows it’s an outside stock.

I have added another database file to my existing stock report and linked the products by our manufacturing code #, now I'm listing the products but since the added database (customers dead stock) only accounts for about 2% of our total stock, only the customer products are being listed the 2% of stock plus our main warehouse for that product as well, all products which are located at the main warehouse only eare not listed, since the two databases are linked and there is no listings for these products in the Customer Dead stock listing. How can I fully list my existing stock report but also link the new report while still displaying the areas where only one location resides?

Sorry it is a bit hard to explain but I know it's shouldn’t be too complex, basically I would like to keep the same products and group them but I don't want the one database to affect or change the other.
 
Dear Nervous,

Did you join on an EQUAL join? I believe you need a left outer join.

Please be aware, that if you use a Left Outer join, you will not be able to (usually) set any selection criteria on the table on the right side of the join as that would negate the left outer join.

regards,

ro

Rosemary Lieberman
rosemary-at-microflo.com, Microflo provides expert consulting on MagicTSD and Crystal Reports.

You will get answers more quickly if you read this before posting: faq149-3762
 
Yes the link is an Equal join, I went into the link properties to change it to a left outter, but the option bullet is greyed out, any idea how I can activate it?
 
Dear nervous,

Well, you haven't posted any information regarding the version of Cyrstal, the type of connection (odbc, direct, etc) and the driver used nor what database(s) you are using.

If you post that type of information, I can then provide a guess.

regards,

ro

Rosemary Lieberman
rosemary-at-microflo.com, Microflo provides expert consulting on MagicTSD and Crystal Reports.

You will get answers more quickly if you read this before posting: faq149-3762
 
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