{"id":556,"date":"2008-01-04T19:28:05","date_gmt":"2008-01-05T02:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/members.crystalreportsbook.com\/crystal-reports-xi\/12-5-formula-fields-without-linking-and-shared-variables\/"},"modified":"2010-11-17T18:39:34","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T01:39:34","slug":"12-5-formula-fields-without-linking-and-shared-variables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.crystalreportsonlinetraining.com\/training\/12-5-formula-fields-without-linking-and-shared-variables\/","title":{"rendered":"12.05 Formula Fields Without Linking and Shared Variables"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Using Formula Fields without Linking<\/h2>\n<p>Formula fields can also be used by a subreport without linking them. This is used when you want to pass data to a subreport without filtering the data. For example, the main report can pass a string to the subreport so that the string gets printed in the subreport&#8217;s header.<\/p>\n<h2>Passing Data Via Shared Variables<\/h2>\n<p>Shared variables let you share data between a main report and its subreports. This lets you perform calculations, track subtotals and create strings in one report and pass this data to the other report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using Formula Fields without Linking Formula fields can also be used by a subreport without linking them. This is used when you want to pass data to a subreport without filtering the data. For example, the main report can pass a string to the subreport so that the string gets printed in the subreport&#8217;s header. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-12-incorporating-subreports","category-crystal-reportsnet-2003","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crystalreportsonlinetraining.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crystalreportsonlinetraining.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crystalreportsonlinetraining.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crystalreportsonlinetraining.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crystalreportsonlinetraining.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.crystalreportsonlinetraining.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1609,"href":"http:\/\/www.crystalreportsonlinetraining.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/1609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crystalreportsonlinetraining.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crystalreportsonlinetraining.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crystalreportsonlinetraining.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}