An alternative is a running total.
Right-click on a field and choose
Insert to get a choice of
Running Total or
Summary. Or else use the
Field Explorer, the icon that is a grid-like box, to add running totals.
Running totals allow you to do clever things with grouping and formulas. They also accumulate for each line, hence the name. The disadvantage is that they are working out at the same time as the Crystal report formats the line. You cannot test for their values until after the details have been printed. You can show them in the group footer but not the group header, where they will be zero if you are resetting them for each group.
Summary totals are cruder, but are based directly on the data. This means that they can be shown in the header. They can also be used to sort groups, or to suppress them. Suppress a group if it has less than three members, say. They default to 'Grand Total', but also can be for a group.
A summary count would give you the total number of detail lines in the group, available for the entier group. A running total count would give you the number of detail lines that have been printed so far.
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