How to define parameters in a Crystal Report

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Jan
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    I have a year-to-date labor distribution report developed in Crystal that I'm publishing to LBI.  The report is grouped by

    1) cost center
    2) employee
    3) payroll quarter
    4) payroll month

    When originally published, the user will see all data for all pay periods for all the cost centers the viewer has permissions to see.  I'd like the user to filter the data to just see a selected payroll quarter or a selected payroll month.  I've started playing around with parameters but have run into some issues.  My questions are

    1) to allow a user to filter the LBI published report to a particular month or pay period, do I need to first add the parameter to the Crystal report so that it passes to LBI?   Or can I just add the parameter to the report once it is published into LBI?

     

    Matthew Nye
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      You can do it either way. Look at the Parameters section of any published report in RS. Youll see the ability ti delete current parameters or create new ones. Ideally, I think maintaining the parameters in Crystal is a better practice.

      hth
      matt
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