Pop Up User Input Box

[khaines]

First off, let me say that I am am a huge novice to Crystal, so if you could tailor your response to include language that would be understandable to me, much appreciated.

I have authored a report in Crystal XI that is used by an application that allows users to read it only. The report needs to be updated monthly with an updated month such as "August Financials" "September Financials" etc. Essentially, a subheading.

Is there a way that I can create a prompt, at run-time, that the user can input a subheading. On each run of the report, it would prompt the user for a new subheading (and ideally, default with the last entered subheading).

Thanks so much.

Kyle

[tgarner444]

Good morning Kyle,

I am not quite sure what you are asking.

At first blush, it seems you are asking how to develop a parameter in your program which prompts the user for the name of the sub total... September Financials, etc. Of course, just create a parameter field, and place the field in your report in the appropriate location.

However, if the September financial data automatically is brought into the report due to your expert programming when it is ready to display, why not create a field in which the vale of the month ("9" in this case) equals "September Financials?" Thus, no input is needed?