I am using the chart expert , my Chart Layout choices are disabled

[MENON]

Please let me know how I can Enable my Chart Layout Buttons, I also would like to know How I can create an application with a Pie chart, thereby when I click on the Chart I can Pop up a Drill down Report.

 

[kenhamady]

Are they disabled on a brand new chart or just when changing existing charts?

If you create a group chart and hide the details, you can drill down on the chart to the details. Ken Hamady

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Quick Reference Guide to VB/Crystal (including ADO)

 

[mgtech]

THIS IS NOT AN ANSWER TO THE ABOVE PERSON'S PROBLEM

However,I am having the same problem too; both when creating a report in Report Expert and trying to insert a chart object into an existing report with a group sort.

The report selects records by date range.
The details are boolean fields (T or F).
The summary fields are counts of the 'T' detall records and are in a group sorted by date; the counts are reset at change of month.

When inserting the chart, the Running Totals are counts of the records (Layout=Advanced), not the counts of 'T'values.

I want to set Layout = Group so that the bars represent the group totals. All other Layout choices beside Advanced are disabled.

Help?

Thanks in advance...Matt Galbraith (mgtech)

 

[techninut]

In the fields you are attempting to chart on, are there variables used in the formulas?

-David

 

[mgtech]

The fields I am trying to do the bar chart on are Running Totals fields which have a formula in the "Evaluate" section of the Running Totals editor. the formula looks at a boolean result: T or F. The count is incremented by 1 if the result is T. That would be the only "variable" I can think of. Thanks for responding.

Matt (mgtech)

 

[kenhamady]

Use a conditional total (Subtotal of an if-then formula) instead of a running total and you can do a group chart for the existing groups of the report. Conditional totals are described in faq149-243. Ken Hamady, On-site Custom Crystal Reports Training & Consulting
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Guide to using Crystal in VB

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