Crystal 11 question, thinking that this should be simple but no luck so far.

Created a report where the detail line has 1 field that is a sub report. Sometimes this sub report field has a value and sometimes it is blank. When the value is blank I do not want to print that detail line.

I have created a shared value in the sub report and I am able to pass that value back to the main report. I created a copy of my sub report and placed it in the section “Detail A”. This allows me to obtain the shared value I need to determine if I want to print the Detail B line. I have the original sub report along with the rest of my desired detail line placed in “Detail B”. I am able to test the shared value to see if I want to print and do get the Detail B line to print as desired.

Now the problem, how can I get the Detail A line to not print? When I want to print the Detail B line, Detail A line prints and when I do not want to print the Detail B line Detail A line prints. This causes some large unwanted gaps on my report. I have the contents of Detail A whiten out so all I get is a blank line.

It is my understanding that I cannot suppress Detail A because I would not be able to obtain the shared value obtained from the sub report in it that I need to determine if I want to print Detail B.

Any thoughts?