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Why certain fields are not appearing for me to Group by?

Former Member
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Hi!

I have a SQL View. In crystal report, I want to group by a certain field in this view, however when I go to Group Expert, why can't I find this field in the dropdown list to group by?

Please help~

Chinho

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Former Member
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Any advice? Please help!

Chinho

Former Member
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What is the field's data type? It might have something to do with that...

HTH,

Carl

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Carl probably hit on the answer above -- if the field you want to group on is a varchar, or a char of over a certain length, it will appear as a memo field and disallow grouping.

Former Member
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Absolutely Correct! Thanks guys...

Now, I will take note of not creating UDFs with type VARCHAR(MAX), we should create a VARCHAR with a specified length to prevent Crystal Report from converting it to report data type MEMO.

Thanks!

Warmest Regards,

Chinho

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