“How do you know how big to make a field in Crystal Reports?”
Laying out a Crystal Report can be stressful, especially when you’re guessing at how wide to make a field so string data fits. The problem is, string database fields (such as nvarchar) are measured in...
View ArticleLose Your Crystal Reports .NET Field Explorer?
That window in the Crystal Reports .NET designer that shows the database fields, formula fields, etc. is called the “Field Explorer”, unless you need to reopen it. If you need to reopen the Field...
View ArticleWindows XP SP2 Users Can’t Open Crystal Reports Exported To PDF or Excel
I have a web forms application based on Crystal Reports .NET 2003, and one of the options I present users is the choice between HTML output (using CrystalReportViewer), or export to PDF or XLS. All...
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Crystal Reports .NET Error –“The request could not be submitted for...
There are several causes for this message, you should read all the information before trying any one of these solutions. 1) This is a known issue in some versions of Crystal Reports, and there is a hot...
View ArticleCrystal Reports .NET – How to report off a flat XML file through a Visual...
How to report off a flat XML file through a Visual Studio .NET application source: http://support.businessobjects.com/library/kbase/articles/c2015522.asp?ref=devzone_net_howto This short KB article has...
View ArticleCrystal Reports Pop-ups and XP SP2
If you haven’t read the article “CodeSnip: Opening Crystal Reports in a New Window in ASP.NET” (http://aspalliance.com/525), do that before you read this. I received this comment recently: When I...
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Crystal Reports .NET: Setting Paper Orientation Programmatically
This is a question I see very often, and you can set the paper orientation in code-behind as such: ReportDocument.PrintOptions.PaperOrientation = CrystalDecisions.[Shared].PaperOrientation.Landscape...
View ArticleHandling Large Data Sets in ASP.NET and Crystal Reports
I receive a lot of feedback from my ASP Alliance articles, usually comments. I don’t typically answer via e-mail, since that doesn’t help the community. Today I received the following message, and...
View ArticleMultiple Excel Spreadsheets and Crystal Reports
From the mailbag, in response to Exporting to Excel in Crystal Reports .NET – Perfect Excel Exports Hi, I was searching in the internet about how to solve a problem I have and found your name in an asp...
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Just Arrived: Crystal Reports Encyclopedia Vol 2
Congrats to Brian Bischof for publishing Crystal Reports Encyclopedia for .NET 2005 and 2008, and the redesign of the companion site at http://www.crystalreportsbook.com/. In the past, I can’t say...
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