Comments on: Crystal Reports: Named-Date-Range Parameters

By: Craig Buchanan

Craig Buchanan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:02:49 +0000

@Catherine: Yes, you always need to enter a value in custom-date range, even if you choose a named-date range.

By: Catherine Williams

Catherine Williams — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:21:52 +0000

I am now using this and it has the potential to cut the number of reports we have by 60% so it’s amazing. I have one question: it appears that you always have to enter dates in the date range even when you don’t choose custom date range, although it does ignore these dates. Is that correct or am I doing something wrong. If I leave the date range empty, when I click on month to date, then the report fails.

By: Craig Buchanan

Craig Buchanan — Fri, 11 May 2007 14:04:50 +0000

I’m not sure if this is possible. When I entered ‘1/1/2007′ into the date-range parameter’s ‘Default Value’ textbox, this value was used by the ‘Start of Range’ and ‘End of Range’ values. Not ideal, but close. Next, I tried a number of other default values such as:

[2007-1-1..2007-12-31]
2007-1-1,2007-12-31
2007-1-1;2007-12-31

but none passed the Default Value field’s validation process.

If you find a solution, please let me know.

By: Syed Gilani

Syed Gilani — Fri, 11 May 2007 13:05:17 +0000

How do you set default values for a daterange parameter? I would like to choose different values for the Minimum and Maximum ranges.

By: Craig Buchanan

Craig Buchanan — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:53:26 +0000

You could use the WeekToDateFromSun range in the Record Selection Formula:

ELSE IF {?Date Range}= “Week To Date” THEN WeekToDateFromSun

And this in the Date Range function:
case “Week To Date”:
CStr(Minimum(WeekToDateFromSun)) + “-”+ CStr(Maximum(WeekToDateFromSun))

By: Annette

Annette — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:49:29 +0000

Hello, that’s brilliant and very clear thanks. I have a question though. Does anybody know how to create a Date Range “This Week”? I want the report run automatically for this week, like LastFullWeek.
Any ideas, experiences or advices are highy appreciated!!!
Thanks in advance
Annette

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:23:30 +0000

Much appreciated! I was looking all over for the syntax to display the date ranges of the function-based date ranges.

By: System Administrator

System Administrator — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 04:35:07 +0000

Which version of Crystal Reports are you using? This keyword is valid for versions 8.5 – 10.

By: Moore Greenberg

Moore Greenberg — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 00:21:24 +0000

Hello,
I am having trouble making your fomula work for a “yesterday” date selection. Crystal cannot identify “DataDate”. What do you recommend so I can set up Enterprise to just distribute Yesterdays report every day?

Thank You

Moore