Creating Ad-Hoc Report at run-time?
A good idea, Nick, if not the most "elegant" solution. Mark DeFreitas
also suggested this in an email. The problem is, and I admit I
didn't make this clear in my original post, is that one of these
fields is an OLE-Object (Long Binary) field type (It's used to store a
graphical picture). As far as I can see, when creating a field
definition (or template), Crystal Reports will not allow you to
designate a field as an OLE-Object field.
Is this correct? Can another field-type be substituted, but still
work for OLE-Objects?
Thanks in advance, again!
-Craig.
this message. Thanks)
On 29 Sep 1998 08:56:28 +1000, "Nick Kirlew"
Quote:
>Create a template database and transfer your selected data to the template.
>fld1, fld2 fld3, fld1Heading, fld2Heading Then report against the Template.
>Nick
>> Hi all.
>> I have been looking at Crystal Reports within VB. I know it is not
>> possible to allow a report to be fully designed by the user at
>> run-time, but I was wondering if it is possible to make small
>> modifications to the report design (in code) at run-time.
>> My problem is that the report I need will be very basic. The actual
>> "layout" will not change, however, in my application, the user can
>> select a database at run-time, and choose up to 10 fields from that
>> database to report on. I need to be able to dynamically change the
>> fields that are reported on. (BTW, the databases are ODBC-databases
>> opened in a Jet workspace with DAO)
>> I am aware of a different product called "ActiveReports" (from Data
>> Dynamics - http://www.datadynamics.com) which looks very good indeed
>> (I have the evaluation copy) - However, I would really like to be able
>> to achieve what I'm after with Crystal Reports (I already have Crystal
>> Reports Pro v6.0) or even with some other product that wouldn't
>> require me to invest further cash. (ie. Free! :)
>> If anyone has ANY information on this subject, or knows of a solution
>> or "work-around" to my problem, then please let me know. I would
>> appreciate it if you could email me as well as posting here. My email
>> Many thanks for your time...
>> -Craig.
