>I have two tables. The main table is a list of names with no dates. The second table is a list of activities by names with dates. I link the two tables using a left outer join so I list all of the names from the first table whether they have an activity or not. The problem is, I want to restrict the report to only show a certain date range of activities, but when I put a date range in record selection it only shows the names on the report that have an activity, not all the names are shown. I want to show all the names so that I can show names with zero activity for instance, but at the same time I want to show activities for a certain date range.
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>How can I fake out Crystal to make this happen? Thanks for your help.
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>I thought about using VFP to filter on date range before I run the CR, but then I can't get the report I want using CR in stand-alone mode. I want to be able to run the report with or without VFP as needed.

I'm assuming that you will be using report parameter fields for the dates. Try supressing the date fields if they don't fall in the range.