I inherited a report where when you run it, the data will be divided into two columns and four rows on one page. I am wanting to change the format so it displays like a basic report where it's just rows listed straight down on the page. The report is below. I am using Crystal Reports 2008 version 12.3.
Report Design:
Report Preview:
Right click in the gutter of the Details section and choose Section Expert...
Clear the Format with Multiple Columns checkbox
Related
I have a report in Axosoft's ActiveReports where I declare two variables to store the earliest date and the latest date seen in the report, which are evaluated with each line of the Detail section.
I can put the results in the Report Footer. But, I want this Report Date Range to appear in the Report Header on the first page. Is there any way to do that?
I have done this before in Crystal Reports, but can't see how to do it in ActiveReports.
Thanks for any suggestions.
I have a requirement where i need to create a section on crystal report multiple times based on a value coming from an XML. I am not using Java or C#. i need to do this within Crystal report.
Version = Crystal Report 2016
If the maximum number of labels is not too high, you could
prepare as much detail sections as will be needed at max,
and control the visibility of each detail section according to your value in "NumberOfLabels"
as shown for MaxRowCount in this answer.
I am not a Crystal Reports developer.
In a legacy Crystal Report, I have been asked to find out why some Rows of data are being excluded from the Report Output at run time.
I copied the SQL behind the report and when I ran it in SQL Server Management Studio, those rows are not excluded. This is what leads me to conclude that there is a filter in the report itself that is excluding certain rows.
My question:
What are the different places in Crystal Reports 11 that I should look to find if any filtering is going on at run time?
I have looked at Formula fields, Selection formulas, Parameter Fields ... but though I have seen various code in those places, I have not found anything that looks like it will limit the output.
I would appreciate any pointers/suggestions.
Besides section suppression, look at:
Report, Selection Formula, Record...
Report, Selection Formula, Group...
Database joins
If the report SQL is the same as the one you checked in SSMS (including record selection formula , which will be the WHERE clause) , check report's details section suppression formula. A details row might be suppressed based on some row values
I've put together a summary report in Crystal Reports 2013 that has about 10-12 subreports. Each subreport is a fairly basic query that produces one or several lines rows and columns of data. I'm using SAP's Central Management Console to produce the reports, with the output an Excel output.
My problem is that my excel output is coming out unstandardized i.e. random extra empty rows and columns, data and header mismatches, different widths of rows and columns, etc.
I've been messing around with the formatting setting w/in Crystal Reports (standardizing size and shape of subqueries on the preview screen, supressing empty areas, etc.) but can't come close to getting the Excel output to look the way I want.
Is there a specific export formatting function/area within Crystal Reports that will allow me to design the export in the way I'd like? And if not, are there any ways to format multiple subqueries w/in Crystal Reports so their format in an Excel export is uniform?
If i really understood your issue, you have troubles with the alignment of data, cells and stuff like that in the spreadsheet, is it correct?
If so, the solution is to review the align of your fields in the report. It is very boring. You can use some functionalitis like:
right click a field and use "align to grid"
select two fields, right click and use "left align" and "top align"
change the property "gridsize" of the "report" to a higher value and use the keyboard to position the fields.
Avoid empty spaces between field at most.
Keep your eyes on the rulers.
Furthermore, check the version of Crystal Reports you are using. There is a good improvement about it from version 11 to 13.
Exporting to Excel seems a bit qwerky because the same steps do not necessarily work for all reports (my experience at least). Keep this in mind when reading the following steps. Perform the following steps on both the detail(footer if using grouping) and header rows where applicable:
Choose driver “Microsoft Excel(97-2003)”
Make sure the header and detail sections have no spaces in between the columns
Make sure the header and detail column boxes align perfectly (should see red crosses when alignment is correct).
Select all fields on the row, right-click, align to top (if this does try aligning to grid)
Right-click to the left of the detail columns and “Select All Section Objects”
Right-click in the same location and choose “Arrange Lines” then “Fit Section”
Perform steps 4 & 5 on the header columns as well
Open Section Expert, select “Suppress Blank Section” for all unused sections
If none of the above work, use driver “Microsoft Excel (97-2003) (Data Only) “
Headers will still appear in the report but will not be in bold
I have a number of reports with current and ytd columns(summary totals by salesman). I want to be able to select the sub-report based on the column clicked. I have one sql procedure that selects current and one that selects ytd. I want to use the same report format (without having to copy and modify it) for current and ytd. Is there anyway of identifying what column is clicked?
Crystal Reports is pretty much just a reporting tool; it's not very interactive.
I'm more familiar with older versions of Crystal Reports, but as far as I know there aren't any onClick methods for columns that can be trapped using pure Crystal Reports.
Depending on how many columns you have, you can create a subreport for each column, but that may be prohibitively slow if you have a large number of columns you want to create subreports for.
If you're using C# or VB.NET to generate the report, you may have more options, but since the question isn't tagged with any programming languages, I'm going to assume this is pure Crystal Reports.