Sage MAS 90/200 Quick Tip from Zip: Crystal, blank date

By Brett Zimmerman • April 19th, 2010

If you ever need the ability to enable criteria on a Crystal Report, for dates that equal ‘blank’, a simple formula like this will do the trick:  {date field} = Date (0000, 00, 00)

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Thank Brett. Nice tip.

What uses would a formula like this have with MAS90/200 version 4.4?

By Brett Zimmerman on April 22nd, 2010 at 3:28 pm

Not necessarily specific to any one version of MAS 90, but let's say you're creating a Crystal Report against the IM3 Item Costing file, and you don't want to see any of the 0 costing tiers which all have a blank date. This formula would allow you to enable Selection criteria for dates not equal to blank.

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