Pass Field from Sub Report to Main Report

SHARED VARIABLES

 

Shared variables are used to pass values from sub report to the main report.

(if you want  to summarize totals from a sub report with totals from the main report, you would use the following formulas to pass the value from the sub report to main report.

 

SUB REPORT                                        whileprintingrecords;

                                                                                SHARED Numbervar  X := x + {field};

 

MAIN                                                                     whileprintingrecords;

                                                                                SHARED Numbervar  X;

                                                                                X

 

Shared variables can not be suppressed. I make the font white and the field very small.

They must be placed below the subreport to retrieve the value.

STILL HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM WHY IS MY SHARED VARIABLES COMING UP ZERO???

Make sure the subreport is in a section (and not suppressed) prior to the formula showing the shared value.  Also on Ken Hammady (sp?) website, he talks about having two copies of the formula that shows the shared variable, but one was before the sub-report, and the value was not updating.

I hope this helps.