Crystal Reports: Text field flow justified around image/margin indentation

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Crystal Reports: Text field flow justified around image/margin indentation

I'm creating a report that outputs a letter. The first page contains is a large left margin containing static company information. The letter output can be multiple pages, however I only want the text on the first page indented to the right away from the left margin. How can I accomplish this with one text field (the letter body is all one data field)?

Example: http://i.imgur.com/E6SGr.jpg

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Right-click on your text field and select 'Size & Position'. Here you can set the X and Y positions of the field, and the X value can be set conditionally. All you have to do is something like:

if pagenumber=1 then 0 else 1440

Watch out, though, the units used in the formula are twips, not the units listed as your default in the Size & Position window. FYI, 1440 twips to an inch or 20 twips to a point.

Ryan 2010-10-24 17:30:38

Yeah, that's probably the better solution -- that's what I get for trying to answer the question from memory.

LittleBobbyTables 2010-10-24 18:21:56

Maverick 2010-10-24 22:04:42

Also, I'm using the Crystal Reports that comes with Visual Studio 2008. What version are you using that has this option?

Maverick 2010-10-24 22:05:19

@Maverick: Yes, I mean right-click on the text field. I'm using CR 2008, but I know that the conditional x-position goes back at least to CR XI. I don't use Visual Studio so I'm not entirely sure about the version discrepancies there. Can you post a screen of what you're seeing when you right-click?

Ryan 2010-10-25 16:13:28

@Ryan Here's what I see right clicking http://i.imgur.com/lCYtV.png and if I select Format Object http://imgur.com/qrnGW.png

Maverick 2010-10-26 04:18:57

In Visual Studio, isn't the x-position just an object property (meaning you can set it conditionally the same way I described above)? Again, I've never used Visual Studio so this is just a guess. If not, you can always go with LittleBobbyTables answer and create two text boxes and selectively suppress them.

Ryan 2010-10-26 18:41:21

Yes, "Left" (or x-position) is an object property, but it does not allow any input other than numerical. I'll have to check out the 2008 version you are using, if I have to convert the project to get the feature, I guess I will do that.

Maverick 2010-10-27 17:23:52

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