I'm curious about a couple of things using the Crystal Reports pring engine
only as a DLL....WHERE DO I FIND A HELP FILE THAT GIVES THE DETAILS ON
IMPLEMENTING THE ENGINE?

I have searched hi and lo in VB5.0 documentation for it but have been
unable to find it.

What I have is a simple report that is based upon a specific record
selection and I'm not sure if I should pass that criteria as a parm to the
report engine (can't tell since I don't have any details on including the
report engine as of yet) or if I should some built it function that comes
with the print engine to pass the criteria....IE: a selection of records
based on a DATE.

Any suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Douglas

There is a file called developer.hlp in the crystal directory.  It has all
the PE functions and sample code. (This is in the CR Professional at least)

Bob

The VB version of Crystal Reports doesn't include this documentation.  If  you
want to use the API calls, you need to Professional version of Crystal
Reports.  This will give the the .h file for C++ and a BAS file for Visual
Basic.

To answer your question though, yes you can pass a parameter to the Selection
Formula or even modify the Selection Formula with the Print Engine calls. You
would use the function call PESetSelectionFormula.
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Sincerely,
Brian Dong

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