Operation Manual

Report Alerts

Working with Report Alerts

416 Crystal Reports User’s Guide

A new report tab is opened showing the report record(s) that triggered the

alert. If the record is hidden, the record’s group is shown but drill down is

not performed.

Note: If you select more than one triggered alert before clicking the View

Records button, the results are generated by performing a Boolean AND

operation on the selected alerts.

4. To return to the Report Alerts dialog box, click the Preview tab.

5. Click Close to remove the Report Alerts dialog box.

Referring to Report Alerts in formulas

Alerts can be referred to in formulas. Any formula that references an alert

becomes a print time formula.

The following functions are available:

• IsAlertEnabled( )

• IsAlertTriggered( )

• AlertMessage( )

These functions behave the same as alerts created in the Create Alerts dialog

box:

• IsAlertTriggered("AlertName") is true only for the records on which the

alert is triggered

• AlertMessage("AlertName") displays the message for a record when the

alert is true.

Because alerts are not field objects (you cannot drop them into the report),

alerts are represented differently from report fields in the Formula Workshop.

In the Functions tree, you’ll see an Alerts heading where the functions

themselves appear. Available alerts are listed by name below that.