Post Author: Richard Shulman
CA Forum: Formula
Earlier versions of Crystal Reports supported a dictionary where formulas could be defined, included in a view and then used by any report based on that dictionary as if it were a field in a database. Some of these formulas could be quite complex with multiple fields being referenced. Using the formula as a report field or in record selection logic was easy and direct and there was no need to list the fields used as parameters (as is the case with Custom Functions).
Given that repositories only support functions rather than formulas and that these defined and stored functions have to be imbedded in a report specific formula in order to be used, the ease and simplicity of dictionary based formulas seems to have been lost.
Am I missing something? Is there an easier way?