Question

I am a bit new to crystal reports even though I’ve been doing a bit of heavy lifting with it.
I have this crystal report that has a datetime field.
This field has a default datetime of 1753-01-01 00:00.
Now I want this field to display only date like “01-03-2011″ and also anywhere it sees the default date, it should display an empty string like ”.
To achieve this I used this formular (in the display string)

if CurrentFieldValue = DateValue('1753-01-01 00:00:00') then
       ''
else
    totext(CurrentFieldValue)

This successfully changes the default date to empty string. But now I can no longer change the format to dates only.

Answer 1

I found my own workaround.

In case there is anyone who might be interested in the method I used, here it is

     if CurrentFieldValue = DateValue('1753-01-01 00:00:00') then 
        ''
     else
        totext(CurrentFieldValue, 0)

Can you imagine, just a little 0 after the currentFieldValue!