Placing multiple records on a single line (variables)

Hi, I am new to Crystal Reports, but I know Basic and other programming. I have Crystal Reports XI and am pulling data from our ERP/MRP system, Epicor Vista (Progress DB).

I've been asked to figure out a Crystal Reports for our company (I get thrown into these projects). I know what the report should look like and I know how I would go about some VB code in a macro in Excel if all the data was in worksheets(i.e. like tables).

Below is the data. Any help would be SO appreciated. So far I'm loving Crystal Reports and I can't wait to get some reports our company can start using but I'm stuck on understanding the timing and connection of formulas with the records.

Table1 "JobMtl"
Field "JobComplete":String
Field "JobNum":String
Table2 "JobOper"
Field "OpComplete":Boolean
Field "OprSeq":Number

{JobMtl.JobComplete}
False
True
{JobMtl.JobNum}
2010
2011
{JobOper.Complete}
False
True
{JobOper.OprSeq}
10
20
30
40

Let's say I dragged all 4 fields into a report. It would look like this.

JobNum JobComplete OprSeq OpComplete
2010 False 10 True
2010 False 20 True
2010 False 30 False
2010 False 40 False
2011 False 10 True
2011 False 20 False
2011 False 30 False

I would it to read like this

JobNum JobComplete PrevOp CurrOp NextOp
2010 False 20 30 40
2011 False 10 20 30

**Note: {JobMtl.JobComplete} will be used so I am only reporting jobs that are "not complete". I guess it means nothing to you guys, but I put it here because I was not sure if this will be involved in a formula.

Thanks,
Anthony

My email is ls1z282002_at_yahoo.com (replace "_at_" => "@.") if you would a *.RPT with the data I've shown.Check your e-mail.|||Come on
We all want to see the solution|||Here's what I got from her.

There is a second report that somone from another forum helped me on. I actually need to combine both of these into one because I like the report from SvB_NY because she mad the operations a single String. So I need to do some combining of the two.

I have another question that I'm posting below this.

Anthony|||After showing this to everyone at work, they of course asked for more detail in the report :)

What we have is for each operation {JobOper.OprSeq} it may be an Outsourced (There is a boolean field {JobOper.OprSeq}) that states whether that Operation is outsourced. If it is outsourced they want me to list the PONum & POLn. I know this is simple and I thought so too! I even got it too work! So here's the snag...if the Job does not have any outsourced operations it gets skipped in my report! My reasoning is our ERP software doesn't actually make a index for PO's if that job does not have any PO's against it. Makes sense to me. So how do I handle this?

In the report I attached there should be 3 jobs
2010
2011 => Not shown because no outsourced operations
2012

Am I going to have to create 2 seperate reports, save all the information in arrays. Then match up the arrays with some code and print out a report?

Thanks,
Anthony|||SvB_NY, Thanks for all the help!

I got my report to work and I published it into our ERP software. I appreciate all the help and attached is the final product, if anyone cares to look.

I did never get the PO's to work right because I found out we have multiple PO's to a given operation and that created multiple records for the operation, so my logic for getting the "Prev,Curr,Next" operation didn't work. This is OK though because I was running out of room for the data and I had to have a big comment field. If it was dire for us I'm sure I could get it to work, or I actually I would have posted the question here :)

Anthony