Print subreport when no data main report

[demoman]

Howdy,

I have a report which prints a billing detail within a date range. The main report prints rental billing info, the subreport prints sales billing info. They have different data sources (Sql Server Views). They are linked by CustomerNumber. Sometimes there will NOT be any data in the main report, but there will be in the subreport. I would greatly appreciate anyone's assistance on how to configure this to work properly.

Thanks!

 

[kenhamady]

Make both reports into subeports of a master report. The master report can simply read the customer record in the customer table, or it can read something completely unrelated as long as it will always be available. In some versions of CR you could even create a container report that doesn't read any data but simply launches the subreports.

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[demoman]

Ken,

Thanks for the tip. It does make sense, I have deployed it and it does work well. I am just starting out in Crystal. or, at least restarting. I used CR back in the late '80s (maybe early '90s) with R:base. Mostly I have been using Access for reports. I will never go back to Access again. I REALLY like the new CR. Do you have any suggestions for reference books aimed at developers who have extensive background in other report writers?