I'm trying to create a report as shown below with a logo touching header and detail band... Can someone please help me on where to start with... Even the header end is having a cross lines... do i need to take that as an image or is it possible in ireport tool to have such designs??
I'm new to jasper reporting... Please help me on how to create such report
I'm not sure about crossed lines since it's been a year since my last time using iReports, but I can't remember this kind of attention to the estetic part and I think you should probably use a background image.
Regarding the logo touching header and detail, since I don't think iReport can deal with overlapping bands, I would suggest you to organize your report as shown in the following image.
Header (red part): take care of the whole report non connected to the detail
Detail (green part): just your data
You can handle vertical lines in both bands in order to preserve a sort of frame.
I had to emulate several times this sample. and I've always reached my goal in this way.
Hoping it helps.
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Im using RDLC for VS 2010 and exporting the graph to a word document gives one extra blank page (its not showing in PDF though). All of the dimensions in Report, Chart and Body are set 11x8.5 with no margins. I just wonder what could be causing the blank page in Word.
I was having the exact same problem and managed to solve it by adjusting the layout of my report.
Basically I moved all of my rectangles/tables etc to sit tightly next to each other, eliminating any white space where possible and also resized the report to be as small as possible, i.e. sit tightly against its contents.
It might also be worth enabling the report option to 'ConsumeContainerWhitespace'.
I suspect Word uses its own pagination logic, which is why you see a difference between pdf and doc. So it may just be the case that your report is over-running very slightly into the next page and saving a little space on the report may prevent this.
I realise this is not a precise answer, but I hope it helps nonetheless.
I have tried every combination of band configuration and layouts.
I have a master report and (currently) 2 subreports. The printout is a workorder and each work order must have X number of repair items and Y number of detailed parts used to repair the component. Sometimes there are only a few of each other times there are over 50 each.
Header of the report looks great. I have two bands where I place my subreports. Originally I had them both in the same band and specified the second subreport as "float" which resulted in the same effect as having each in separate bands.
The subreports display fine however on occasion the parts list will overlap the details I have specified in Last Page Footer band. This does not appear to happen when I place the labels in the Summary band however these labels are mostly boxes for signatures so alignment with the bottom of the page is required and summary seems to add labels and such at end of content.
Resizing the bands the subreports are in seems to work - kinda. However I need both subreports to start immediately after each other. So resizing bands isn't an option otherwise there is a bunch of white space between them and single page printing when only a few parts and repairs are selected does not happen.
Anyone have any ideas? Wisdom to share? Experience? This reminds me of working in HTML and sticky footers ugh :)
I know the question it's quite old, but since I had this problem and I already found the solution, I'll post it for someone that may need it in the future.
In my case, the problem was that I had the Summary With page Header and Footer checkbox selected. Once I put it to false, it worked like a charm.
I'm working on a report. The sections look like the following:
Report Header
Page Header
PH1
PH2
Group Header1
Group Header2
Details
Group Footer2
Group Footer1
Page Footer
Report Footer
I have a couple of questions here:
On the first page, there are two complete group1(group-a, group-b), and part of the data from next group (group c). The vertical lines stop at the end of group-b. Group-a and group-b have grid but group-c has no grid at all. But all vertical lines look fine on the following pages.
I created a few summary objects under report footer, but nothing shows up, not even the text object I put there for testing. I've played around with the section export, but so far, no luck.
Please help me with the questions, thanks a lot. :)
As for line issue, one solution is to create separate line segments for each section. They need to be carefully positioned to line up vertically and sized to span the exact height. Use the editor dialog because mouse positioning just won't work right.
In old versions of Crystal there must have been a lot bugs because I could crash the app dozens of time before getting it right. Eventually I figured out how to avoid the crashes pretty well but I can't remember the details now. It's a big hassle all the way around.
Diagnosing the other issue is probably easier with a view of the designer.
Which version of Crystal? Is there a page break before the report footer?
I know you already tried the text object, but try adding a background color to the report footer to confirm that it's present in the output.
I would like to build a report that starts at the bottom of a page and grows upwards instead of a report that starts at the top of the page and grows downwards. How could I do this?
--Edit--
For clarification, below is an image depicting the way I need to construct the report.
Basically, I'm looking for a way to have the whitespace at the top of the page and the data at the bottom of the page, instead of the more traditional look of data at the top of the page and whitespace at the bottom of the page.
Without knowing much about what the request is, I don't believe there is a way for the report to run from the bottom up, but you could possibly do a couple things to fake the system out.
For example you can do something like in the following link to put your summaries in the header:
Crystal Reports: global variable running total not displaying in header
Then you can play with the sorting of the details if you need the rows to go in decending order.
Hope this helps.
[EDIT] I see you updated your question so I'll add an update to my answer.
One more thing you can try out is to play around with the Print at the Bottom of the Page and Keep Together properties of the sections. I haven't tried this, but one thing you may be able to do is put the section at the bottom of the page and perhaps find a way to have the section grow from there. You will have an issue if the page goes to another page and though it seems possible in my head that the section could grow while being placed at the bottom of the page I haven't tried it so it might not work. I am just throwing it out there for one more thing you can try. Hope this helps.
You could try:
Create an empty report with your headers and related text
Put a subreport displaying your data in the report footer and set the sort order for the subreport query to descending.
In the report footer properties, select Print at bottom of page
I tried it with some sample data and it works, but I'm not sure what will happen if your data goes to two pages.
Is it really true that Crystal Reports does not support images that have transparency?
We are using it at work and the guy that does Crystal Reports told me it doesn't support transparency. I couldn't believe it so I've spent the last 20 minutes googling and think he might be right. This seems absolutely incredible in this day and age.
Can anyone please confirm whether or not CR supports transparency, and if so how you do it (we are not limited by the type of image to insert - png, gif etc).
For the record we are using CR version that comes with VS 2008 (version 10.5).
CR doesn't support transparency but you can use a wmf image to solve your problem.
I'm using CR 12 (2008), i need to put an image as signature (as a watermark) on another image.
Example:
Background_image.jpg
Signature_image.jpg
Convert Signature_image.jpg into a wmf file using "Inkscape" (freeware).
In the report, we have "Background_image.jpg" and over it the "Signature_image.wmf" image,
it works great!
Just reached over here while searching for same problem. Unfortunately this is true till this date :(
Answering this question for users who may visit again here.
Transparent background of image is not retained when adding it to Crystal Reports
I achived solution following way.
Painted transperent area with printing page color i.e. white in my case.
I would like to put image in page header and some text over it.
In CR design mode.
right click in page header section -> select section expert
select page header -> click insert
In page header a check "Underlay following sections" -> click ok.
back in design, in section "page header a" include image.
In section "page header b" include text which I would like to show over image (i.e. I am expecting to be transparent).
Hope this helps for future visitors.
There is another work around I tried and was successful. If you want the image as a watermark in your report, use your report as a sub report in the detail section of the main report and keep the image in a main report page header and use the option 'Underlay Following Sections' in the Section Expert. All the lines and texts will appear properly on top of the image.
As AR_Italy said, confirmed that wmf files are the way to go, even though SAP site says transparent images are not supported, so thank you to AR_Italy.
The only thing I would add is that these can be Exported from Adobe Illustrator as well (make sure your image has a transparent background first).
If your Image has a white background AND your lazy just check this out:
Rightclick on your report, select Report and Report options and Check "Retain Original Image Color Depth