Crystal Report, Anyone?

wendy · 03-22-2005, 03:34 AM

Hi. I'm currently writing a VB program to link to Seagate Crystal report... am in urgent need of help. I'm using Ado too... not sure if it is the right way, could anyone please enlighten me?

wendy · 03-24-2005, 01:24 AM

I got the code. It's a simple one line code if using ADO. Add a crystal report control to the form, connect it with the source, and configure to your preference. Then call it using this line... crptReport.PrintReport. You can also choose to preview it (print to window). The result is amazing. Yet it's that simple!

Note: "crptReport" refers to the name of the control.

sde · 03-28-2005, 03:09 PM

hi wendy, .. that sounds great. i've worked with crystal reports, but i haven't worked with any of the programming API's.

does what you're working on require the crystal reports server running ( i think there was some sort of server ) .. or is it just a library you can run in your project to generate image/html reports?

wendy · 03-29-2005, 03:02 AM

Hi sde. No, the report i created is just a simple one that connects to my VB6 application. Didn't know abt the server thingy...

Anyway, you're familiar with crystal report? I happened to have wrongly installed an older version ie. Seagate Crytal Report 7, and i dun quite know how to use the group name properties and selection formula. Luckily, after some trials and errors, i got the simple outcome i wanted. :-)

Any interesting info abt Crystal Report to share with us?