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Keithscott
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Quote Keithscott Replybullet Topic: Displaying data based on most recent date
    Posted: 07 Jun 2010 at 12:34am
Hi all,

I'm quite a new Crystal user and this is the first time I've posted so please go easy! You've already solved many of my teething issues in previous posts so thanks!

I have data that looks like this:

Table 1: <NameID> <Name>

Table 2: <NameID>, <RatingID1>, <RatingDate1>, <Rating1>, <RatingID2>, <RatingDate2>, <Rating2>

I need to get Crystal to select the record from table 2 that has the most recent date (based on the RatingsDate field), and then display the relevant Rating field on the Report based on this most recent date.

Can this be done. I have been trying to use the MAX function in the record select expert but have been receiving errors that this must be evaluated later?

Thanks in advance for any ideas you can pass to me.

K




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Quote lockwelle Replybullet Posted: 07 Jun 2010 at 3:59am
I haven't tried something like this in CR. I would try creating a stored proc to do the processing as you can make the selection into several steps.  Your data has 2 dates and ratings and I don't think that CR can group/compare on the 2 values...at least I don't see a easy simple solution in CR. 
 
Again, a stored proc is much more flexible in this regard and you can return only the data that you need making the logic of the report much simpler.
 
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