HP Intelligent Management Center Standard Software Platform - Manual (Page 548)

The Formula Workshop appears.
9. Enter your alert condition formula.
Alert formulas can be based on recurring records or on summary fields,
but cannot be based on print-time fields, such as running totals or print
time formulas. Alert formulas cannot have shared variables.
If an alert formula is based on a summary field, any recurring fields used
must be constant over the summary field. For example, if you are grouping
on Country and Region, you might create an alert such as:
Sum ({Customer.Last Year's Sales}, {Customer.Region})
> 10000
In this case, your formula can refer to either Country or Region, but not
City or Customer Name since these are not constant.
Note:
Alert condition formulas can be created using either Crystal Syntax or
Basic Syntax.
10. Clear the Enable check box if you do not want the alert to be evaluated.
Otherwise, leave it selected.
11. Click OK to save your alert.
You are returned to the Create Alerts dialog box and your new alert is
listed. You can see its name and status (Enabled or Disabled).
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Working with Report Alerts