Alerts

Alert functions allow you to create print time formulas related to Crystal Reports' Report Alerts.

Table C-15: Alert functions

Function	Description	Arguments
IsAlertEnabled (alertName)	Returns Boolean value indicating whether or not the alert is enabled.	alertName is the name of an alert (in quotation marks) that you've already created. Locate the available alerts in the Alert Names list, which appears in the Formula Workshop's Functions tree once you've created an alert.
IsAlertTriggered (alertName)	Returns Boolean value indicating whether or not the alert is "triggered" — that is, whether or not the report data meets the alert condition formula.	alertName is the name of an alert (in quotation marks) that you've already created. Locate the available alerts in the Alert Names list, which appears in the Formula Workshop's Functions tree once you've created an alert.
AlertMessage (alertName)	Returns the alert message string for records that "trigger" the alert (that is, for records that meet the alert condition formula). Returns an empty string ("") for records that do not meet the alert condition formula.	alertName is the name of an alert (in quotation marks) that you've already created. Locate the available alerts in the Alert Names list, which appears in the Formula Workshop's Functions tree once you've created an alert.