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Quote freebird40CR Replybullet Topic: CR Processing Engine
    Posted: 28 Nov 2012 at 6:45am
I am trying to display the RecaptureDonorYearDiff on the detail section of the report. It will display the GiftYear and PreviousGiftYear with no problem but when making the calculation the result for the RecaptureDonorDiff is equal to zero. For example, if GiftYear is 2010 and PreviousGiftYear is 2007, the difference should be 3. Listed below is the formula. The formula is placed in the detail section of the report.

Local NumberVar PreviousGiftYear := Year(Previous({CnGf_1.CnGf_1_Date}));
Local NumberVar GiftYear := Year({CnGf_1.CnGf_1_Date});

Local NumberVar RecaptureDonorYearDiff;

Local BooleanVar RecaptureDonor;

WhilePrintingRecords;

RecaptureDonorYearDiff = GiftYear - PreviousGiftYear;

If RecaptureDonorYearDiff >= 2 Then

    RecaptureDonor = True
Else
    RecaptureDonor = False
;

"RecaptureDonor:                  " + ToText(RecaptureDonor);
"Previous Gift Year:              " + ToText(PreviousGiftYear);
"Gift Year:                      " + ToText(GiftYear);
"Recapture Donor Year Difference: " + ToText(GiftYear) + " - " + ToText(PreviousGiftYear) + " = " + ToText(RecaptureDonorYearDiff);
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Quote hilfy Replybullet Posted: 29 Nov 2012 at 4:10am
"Previous" works for all records and you're not checking to see whether you're at the start of a group or the end of a group.  This will only work if you're at the end of a group.  Rather than trying to do all of this in a single formula, I would set up separate formulas, something like this (assuming your data is ordered by donation date and that you're grouping on donor):
 
{@PiorYear}
//If the donor has more than one donation date
If Previous({donor group field}) = {donor group field} then
  Year(Previous({CnGf_1.CnGf_1_Date}))
else //default to current year if there is no previous record
  Year({CnGf_1.CnGf_1_Date})
 
{@CurrentYear}
Year({CnGf_1.CnGf_1_Date})
 
{@RecaptureDonorYearDif}
{@CurrentYear} - {@PriorYear}
 
{@RecaptureDonor}
//this evaluates to True or False without the If
{@RecaptureDonorYearDif} >= 2
 
You can then test these formulas to see what the values are.  Then, instead of creating a formula to display the values with the headings, you have a couple of options:
 
1.  Create a separate text object on the report for each label then drag each of the formulas next to its corresponding label.  Format the numbers so that they don't show decimals (your "ToText" calls above, don't do that...)  This makes it very easy to line up the numbers vertically.
 
2.  Create a single text object on the report that contains all of the labels.  Drag the formulas into the text object so that they're embedded in it next to the appropriate label.  Select each formula, right-click, format the number to not have any decimals.
 
-Dell
 
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Quote freebird40CR Replybullet Posted: 30 Nov 2012 at 4:24am
{@RecaptureDonorYearDif} formula is returning a Boolean value even though I declared RecaptureDonorYearDiff variable as a NumberVar.
 
 

Local NumberVar PreviousGiftYear := Year(Previous({CnGf_1.CnGf_1_Date}));
Local NumberVar GiftYear := Year({CnGf_1.CnGf_1_Date});
Local NumberVar RecaptureDonorYearDiff;

WhilePrintingRecords;

RecaptureDonorYearDiff = GiftYear - PreviousGiftYear;



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Quote hilfy Replybullet Posted: 30 Nov 2012 at 5:02am
Change it to:
 
ptureDonorYearDiff := GiftYear - PreviousGiftYear;
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Quote freebird40CR Replybullet Posted: 05 Dec 2012 at 3:09am
Thank you so much, it works! Why didn't it worked without the ":"?
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Quote hilfy Replybullet Posted: 05 Dec 2012 at 3:30am
Originally posted by freebird40CR

Thank you so much, it works! Why didn't it worked without the ":"?
 
"=" is a boolean comparison.  ":=" is assignment.  Some programming languages work this way and this is the way that you work with variables in Crystal.
 
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Quote freebird40CR Replybullet Posted: 05 Dec 2012 at 4:19am
{@RecaptureDonor}
//this evaluates to True or False without the If
{@RecaptureDonorYearDif} >= 2
 
It did not work. All of the RecaptureDonor results are False.
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Quote freebird40CR Replybullet Posted: 05 Dec 2012 at 5:45am

Thank you for the information.

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Quote freebird40CR Replybullet Posted: 05 Dec 2012 at 6:03am
{@PiorYear}
//If the donor has more than one donation date
If Previous({donor group field}) = {donor group field} then
  Year(Previous({CnGf_1.CnGf_1_Date}))
else //default to current year if there is no previous record
  Year({CnGf_1.CnGf_1_Date})
 
Thank you, this worked like a charm.
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Quote freebird40CR Replybullet Posted: 14 Dec 2012 at 5:44am
It did not work for the FIRST record within the group.
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