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I followed Sebastian's suggestion and installed Crystal, and almost immediately, everything i've ever heard about Crystal was confirmed: it is powerful, flexible, and complicated!
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You want to read the Documentation found on the Crystal Install-CD. It is very very usefull in order to use Crystal.
Read it - you will love it 
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| Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 6:31 am |
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| Also, Iain Wicks GoldMine Premium Administrator training CD covers the use of Crystal Reports. I found it very useful in giving me a kick start. |
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| Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 8:50 am |
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| I agree with DJ. Iains' "GoldMine-System Administrator" training CD is the best and only one of its kind. I have learned things from it that I have not been able to receive from any other source. It too has helped me to jump-start Crystal Reports. |
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| Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 1:13 pm |
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Well I thought I was making good headway in Crystal. I made a report on contact info, and I made a report on activities...but never the twain shall meet. as soon as I put a contact1 field in with the conthist fields, the data disappears from the report.
If this question is not proper for the forum, let me know and I'll retract it--does anyone have a crystal report with contact and history info (my idea is very similar to the default GM "Contact Profile" report) that I could dissect to try to get mine working? I've been looking at the sample reports in crystal, but they use different tables so the correlation is not direct.
I do appreciate the suggestion of resources, but I'm only going to be at this job two more weeks, and I'm just trying to get a couple of reports set up before I go, so I don't want to buy anything right now.
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 1:14 am |
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Hi animattor.
I had the same problem when i started using Crystal.
Simple sollution:
when you create a blank reports - you will come to a screen where you see your GM tables with all their connections. You should choose only one (this is just for the report - the real indexes and connections wont be deleted). I suggest to choose the Accountnumberfield.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 6:09 am |
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| HAHA! Brilliant, S_F. Works like a charm. That's the kind of thing that is never documented, yet leads to hours of frustration if you don't figure it out. |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 11:06 am |
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Thanks for all the help, everyone. I now have a report that displays the data I want, in the place I want it, in the order I want it.
BUT when I run it in Goldmine (if I set a group or filter for the report) it runs the WHOLE DATABASE in the report instead of my group/filter. Do i have to filter in Crystal for it to work correctly? 
EDIT: Sorry. I just searched the old forum and realized that this is how Crystal works. 
P.S. Sorry for the gratuitous usage of smileys in this post. |
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