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Passing Parameters to Reports 1
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Mike Lewis
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You can't pass a parameter to a report. A report is not a program or function, so it has no mechanism for receiving parameters.
If you want the report to reference a specific value from the calling program, store the value in a variable and make sure that it is Private.
For example, if your report needs to know the name of the current user, you could do the following:
PRIVATE pcUser
pcUser = <code here to get the user name>
REPORT FORM MyReport TO PRINTER
RELEASE pcUser
The report will then be able to see the contents of pcUser.
Hope this helps.
Mike
Mike Lewis
Edinburgh, Scotland
My Visual Foxpro web site: My Crystal Reports web site:
If you want the report to reference a specific value from the calling program, store the value in a variable and make sure that it is Private.
For example, if your report needs to know the name of the current user, you could do the following:
PRIVATE pcUser
pcUser = <code here to get the user name>
REPORT FORM MyReport TO PRINTER
RELEASE pcUser
The report will then be able to see the contents of pcUser.
Hope this helps.
Mike
Mike Lewis
Edinburgh, Scotland
My Visual Foxpro web site: My Crystal Reports web site:
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