Question

I have a crosstab with a formula field. The query returns something like

 CategoryID   Company       MarketValue   PaymentMode
  1            ABC             1000         H
  1            xyz             2000         H
  3            efg             9800         H

Payment mode is half yearly indicated by ‘H’
I made a formula field to evaluate payment mode by

WhileReadingRecords;
numberVar mode;  
         if({PaymentMode}='H') then mode:=2 else mode:=12

Then I made another formula field

WhileReadingRecords;
numberVar mode;
numberVar result:={MarketValue}/mod;
result

However it returns division by zero error. Why is my formula for Payment Mode not evaluating properly. I tried placing the payment mode formula in report head and cross tab is 2nd header but it still throws the same error.

Answer 1

Two problems.

First syntax error – or rather typo here, last ‘e’ is missing 🙂

numberVar result:={MarketValue}/mode;

Second – you need to evaluate formuals in specified order. Say your first formula has name ‘calc_mode’, then second one should start with next statement:

EvaluateAfter({@calc_mode});