Nested Subreports

[Former Member]

Post Author: scourge

CA Forum: General

I am attempting to combine 4 different pieces of paperwork (reports) into a main or driver report. Each of these reports is a stand-alone report now, but the user wants the reports or paperwork to be grouped by the job. So I created a 'driver' report, that has each of these stand-alone reports as a sub-report. The problem is that one of the reports has a sub-report in it, so I have a nested subreport. When I look at this report in Design view, the sub-report is gone and the information that would be in this nested subreport does not show up when I run the reports. Is this a bug? I am running CR 9 and I believe I am at service pack 5. Is this normal CR behavior?

Thanks in advance

Len

[Former Member]

Post Author: foghat

CA Forum: General

What you are seeing is expected behavior (unfortunately). As far as I can tell, Crystal will only let you have one level of subreports. If your subreport contains a subreport, the subreports, subreport (or nested subreport, as you have said) will disappear. It sucks - not sure why multiple levels of subreports aren't supported.Sometimes it is possible to rework the query or report so the sub-report isn't required, but I know sometimes it isn't possible. In the past, I've had to break a single report into 2 reports because of this limitation.