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DBlank Moderator Joined: 19 Dec 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 9053	Posted: 04 Apr 2014 at 7:03am
	In the parameter properties I believe you have to set Optional=True That said, if you looka the below it is not checking the DB for the field to be ="", it is checking the parameter value to be "" which is similar to your "else 1=1". ({?Parm}="" or {?Parm}={SomeTable&Col})
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DrPepperholik Newbie Joined: 03 Apr 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 9	Posted: 04 Apr 2014 at 8:10am
	That got it to work in Crystal but when I move the Crystal file over to the reports directory for the vendor software it doesn't work. Is that something that will only work in the Crystal environment?
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DBlank Moderator Joined: 19 Dec 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 9053	Posted: 04 Apr 2014 at 8:43am
	Not sure I can answer that. I assume the software has its own custom interface to run the reports and input the parameters so I don't know how that was written or if the custom interface accepts the blanks/nulls in the params.
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DrPepperholik Newbie Joined: 03 Apr 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 9	Posted: 04 Apr 2014 at 8:48am
	Your guess is as good as mine. I wish I could access the code for the vendor software but of course I can't.
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DBlank Moderator Joined: 19 Dec 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 9053	Posted: 04 Apr 2014 at 9:27am
	another solution is to use stored procedure as a source or to add an 'All' to the lists and use it instead of a blank/null.
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DrPepperholik Newbie Joined: 03 Apr 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 9	Posted: 04 Apr 2014 at 9:47am
	There is no list, it's user entered data. It's not a drop down.
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DBlank Moderator Joined: 19 Dec 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 9053	Posted: 04 Apr 2014 at 10:01am
	So can you train the users to use/type in 'All' (trim({?Parm})="All" or {?Parm}={SomeTable&Col})
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DrPepperholik Newbie Joined: 03 Apr 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 9	Posted: 04 Apr 2014 at 10:38am
	I didn't think of that. The problem is solved by them having a standard report that already did the "all" part so I made this parm field required so they can't get back an empty report.
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