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One Report – Multiple Output Formats
One of the disadvantages of using groupings in a single Crystal report is that the export intoExcel makes the data “unsortable.” However, there is a neat way around this. You can use thesuppressing section functionality to, in one report, prompt a user if they want to export it cleanlyto Excel (suppressing all of the groupings). This is great if end-users want one report withdifferent output options. The one downside is that you couldn't schedule this in LRS because thereport needs the prompt - export to Excel yes/no.Let’s look at a simple example of an employee listing by department. This report has two detailsections: a – with groupings; b – without groupings.Let’s look at the prompt for an Excel export:
 
In English, the report asks the end-user if s/he wants to Export the report to Excel. Of course,should the user select “N”, s/he will still be able to export the report, although the output will not be terribly-user friendly.Let’s look now at the section expert:
 
 Note the red check-box on the right hand side; this indicates that the data will be conditionallysuppressed. In other words, the data will not appear if certain conditions are met. Let’s look atthat more closely.
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