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A mixture of tips for using Spydus fields in Crystal reports such as creating initials from the First name field, create age groups, formulas and how to exclude deleted records from your select list.

CR_tips2_Formula Tips for using the formula option in Crystal Reports

Price of collections Here's a report of the cost of collections, grouped by collection. Includes a grand total, count of total items per collection and an average price per collection. Naturally you will need to set datasource to your server. And main.deactdate is null, otherwise you're counting all your withdrawals as well. Please test and see how you go. Also don't forget gigo, if you don't have a value in the field for price, it will distort the figures. - Gavin

CR_tips3_Parameter A few tips using the options in the Parameter Fields section in Crystal Reports

Monthly Discards Report (v.1) - select own dates Monthly Discards Report: gives a summary of the numbers of items 'discarded' in each collection and its total value, for each branch/library, for a particular period - to be entered when the refresh button is clicked (uses a parameter macro). The 2nd version uses the date range 'LASTMONTH' in case the date selection feature in the first version doesn't work.(Spydus 8.2) Madelon van Zijll de Jong - Hastings Central Library NZ

Ser_subs_complete A list of serial subscriptions sorted by branch and then by collection.  User can select start and end date of subscription to include in report