crystal-reports

Good looking reporting + charts solution for ASP.NET?

Hi, I am developing an ASP.NET MVC website which will include reports and charts based on the data entered by our users. Reports must be easily printable and exportable to PDF and XLS. Ideally, Reports should also contain inline charts. I've played a bit with Crystal Reports and it does seem fit for the job except that the charts look...

Changing Crystal Reports reports shipped with an application and a runtime version

We have a purchased application (I'm told it's .NET, it's client server, running on Windows XP, connecting to SQL Server 2005) that uses a Crystal Reports runtime and separate report files (.rpt) to do it's reporting function. I have a copy of the CR Designer program but we don't have the CR Enterprise software. I can open the reports ...

Call crystal reports through java

Hi, I have one crystal report and i want to create one front end application using java to show the reports to user. Can any one give me the code how can i invoke crystal reports through a java application? ...

Good ways to use Crystal Reports with Salesforce?

Does anyone know good ways/tools/approaches for using Crystal Reports with Salesforce.com? I know that Crystal Reports for Salesforce exists but I'm wondering what other possibilities there are... ...

How do you make a crystal report from a dataset programmatically

I have created a dataset and intend to use it in my crystal report but thing is when i preview the data in the dataset i see it but on the crystal report it only shows the column names only and no data shows... ...

Why are multiple versions of a referenced DLL included in the manifest?

I am building a .Net solution using MSBuild v3.5 targeting .Net 2.0. We are upgrading to use Crystal 11.5 so I have updated the binaries in our source control tree to contain the 11.5 version DLLs instead of the 10.0 DLLs. In the project I reference some Crystal Reports DLLs. Here is a small example of the project file: <Reference Inc...

Crystal Reports compare does not work without trim

{AR_Customer.CustomerType} is a 4 character field {AR_Customer.CustomerType}<>"S" does not return all records where this is true unless I do it this way: trim({AR_Customer.CustomerType})<>"S" in the actual database the NULL fields are the ones I'm missing. So this tells me than NULL is the same as "S" -- I don't think so, but that's h...

Crystal Reports error connecting to local asp.net web service

Hello, I have a web service that returns a serializable data object. On the last page of the Database Expert - XML Web Service selection screen I am getting an error. I cannot figure out how to get around this. ...

Looking for a reporting tool that will allow vector graphics in output file (PDF)

I have been tasked with evaluating our current system that we use for creating and outputing reports. Currently we are using Crystal Reports ver 8, (I know that this is and old version.), which has a custom commandline app that we wrote in C# to execute the report for a given parameter passed through the command line. We like Crystal b...

Crystal Reports 8.5 Concurrent Licenses Issue with vb6

I'm having a licensing issue with my vb6 app and crystal reports 8.5. From time to time it keeps popping up saying "Not enough Concurrent Access Licenses to log you on ..." I've read some stuff online, saying I should close all instances of the report object and set all references to nothing when closing a report etc ... That d...

When I clicked on a subreport recieved exception: "The communication channel has not been created"

I have a report, this report with several subreports, sometimes throws an error when loading "Could not load report", but however still loads the report. (not my current issue, just as some additional information) I clicked on a subreport, and an exception was thrown "The communication channel has not been created." Stacktrace is: ...

Crystal Reports SELECT CASE statement

I have a switch statement in a Crystal Report that looks like this: stringvar tag := {table1.field1}; //contains a string value select tag case 'First Value': {table1.field3} 'Second Value': {table4.field9} default: 'Unknown'; But when I try to save the formula, I get this error: --------------------------- Crystal Reports --...

html header on crystal report export

I have a report which is designed in Crystal Reports XI, when I export it to html it has a predefined header with some meta data in it, how can I have additional meta data in it automatically during an export? from: <META NAME="Author" CONTENT="Crystal Reports 11.5"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> t...

Runtime for CR 10 in visual Studio 2008 is too long.

We are upgradded our application from VS 2003 to VS 2008 + .NET Framework 3.5 and continue to use reports written in CR 10. I do not have any complains about reports, except one: "runtime" to load reports on a client machine (only for the first report, as soon the first report is loaded, there no more delays fot other reports) is too lon...

Crystal Reports with Parameters

Hello, I have an MVC application and I am using CrystalReportViewer 12 to display a crystal report. The way I do it is the user clicks on the preview link and a pop-up window comes up with the report in it. I've been through my set of issues and making MVC work well with images,etc. but now the reports work well. The last hurdle I have...

How does a row in subreport link to a a row in main report in the designer? (Crystal Reports)

I have a Crystal Reports report in Visual Studio 2008 which has a subreport. The source for each report is a separate datatable. Say main report datatable schema is id1, id2, firstname. subreport has datatable schema: id1, id2, lastname. When the report displays, it displays firstname, lastname for each record. If the reports are joined...

Export Crystal Report to CSV Format

How to export the crystal report to .csv file format? ...

best way deploying standalone installer for crystal report?

Because a crystal report requires crystal reports to execute, I need to find a way to deploy the report on a user's desktop as a standalone app. After some searching around, it seems the best way is to embed the report using VB or C#. Priorities here are getting the thing programmed fast and easy obviously. I've been told this can b...

What is the most efficient way to produce a report against a large set of in memory data in .NET?

I am working on a project that sends bills out to hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of customers each month. A lot of the data needs to be manipulated, with interest and whatnot dynamically calculated on the fly through an internal API. Right now I have the process which works in chunks of 2,500 bills at a time and writes out an ...

Acessing Printers and Faxes folder on a network machine in asp.net

Hello, From my vb.net code I am trying to set a printer name for the crystal reports printing rpt.PrintOptions.PrinterName="\johnKing\HP LaserJet 2200 Series PCL" But when I go to windows-->Start--> Run and enter \JohnKing It is showing me Printers and Faxes folder and Scheduled task folder. But when I open Printers and Faxes it will...