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Crystal Reports Pic 4 - Select Data Tables (Photo credit: wmharshana ) I've not written a Crystal Report that required a more advanced query in quite a while, and had a need to union two selects and pass in a parameter to both queries. I initially just wrote the Union query and attempted to place my {?CustomerName} in both places using the "=" comparison operator, which worked. When I wanted to add the ability for the user to only add a portion of the customer name in the query and use the LIKE operator, Crystal had some issues and thought I was trying to pass a column name or some such trash. Eventually I found an article that suggested the use of a DECLARE and SET to hold the parameter that Crystal passes, then hand it off to the query. This also failed until I wrapped the entire UNION in a SELECT and passed in the parameter once. Yay! DECLARE @Cust VarChar(200) SET @Cust = '{?CustomerName}' SELECT * FROM ( SELECT Name, Address, City, State, Zi...

This was confounding me this morning until I found this  post on the ASP.NET forums. I was setting up a GridView and needed to check the values of a couple of cells before I let users click a button in an ItemTemplate. I initially used the Container.DateItemIndex method to determine which row they clicked but quickly found out that this only works without Paging Enabled as noted on the MSDN . All this does is tell you the index of the data, but since the GridView index needs to be reset on each page (0-your page size) you'll never find your values. Instead set is thusly: You'll be able to easily access your cells then: Dim index As Integer = Int32.Parse(e.CommandArgument.ToString()) Dim row As GridViewRow = GV_OrderHeaders.Rows(index) Dim ifs As String = DirectCast(row.FindControl("lblIfsId"), Label).Text Dim oid As String = DirectCast(row.Fi...