How to prevent from cutting string field values in a crystal Reports8.5 report?

Question

Hi First, sorry for my poor english writing. there is an old application written with Vb6.0 and crystal reports8.5. One of the reports (for example report1) has used active data method for retrieving data from SQL server. It contains a field named "description" that has 500 character at most. The problem is that the field (decription) cutts characters to 256 length only. How can I prevent it in order to show all ?

Thank you

Answer 1

If this is a formula field, I believe a formula field in Crystal Reports 8.5 can only hold up to 256 characters. I can't imagine why Crystal Reports does that, but there you have it.

Here's a link to a Crystal Reports Underground article on how to use multiple variables and a text object to display the full contents of the text: http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/130