Question

Got a report that gives the user a Group by parameter with two possible values – Customer and Country. If user selects Customers then the report groups on Customers else on Country if that is the user selection.
I want to create two parameters Customer and Country for filtering reports.
I want to structure the report in a way that Customer parameter shows up only when Group by is Customers, similarly for Country – prompt only when group by is country.
Both the parameters should not show up at the same time as that will confuse the user. Thanks in advance

Answer 1

I don’t think you can have optionally available parameters in Crystal, unless this is a new feature in XI onwards.

An alternative approach would be (in addition to your group by parameter) to create a second parameter with a relatively generic name – something like “group selection values” – and select customer values by this second parameter where Customers is the selected grouping option, otherwise select country values by this second parameter.