>>>I wonder how does Crystal report deal with all this ridiculous<s> stuff.
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>For one thing, Crystal is probably looking at its data sources readonly . Therefore things like UDFs that might trigger data updates and other changes in the sources do not come into the calculations.
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>It's a simpler problem.
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>>L<

UDFs triggering data updates from a report??!! That surely sounds like a ridiculous design to me.
Is that the reason for the current implementation of _pagetotal - i.e. to protect that type of existing reports?

Doru