I am working with SAP Crystal Report 2012. I am suppose to create a Crystal Report which may be exported to PDF. It has certain fields with "Can Grow" property. As a result of all this I am facing overlapping text issues due increase in the text length, I do not want to limit the length of text fields.
I have already tried keeping fields in the different sections. It did removed overlapping but it duplicated the fields as there is a grouping applied in these fields and thus hampered the whole format.
Here is the image of the required format with overlapping text:
Here is the result of applying sectioning on the report as I said it did removed sectioning but duplicated the fields:
just keep your original layout and do this. Put you pointer over the margin and drag it to the left to create a section under your growing field. In that way the field can grow pushing down the section below. See below picture.
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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 need to display data in a basic grid, with borders, column headers, etc. How can this be done in a Crystal Report without having to draw every single line and position/size every field?
I've tried a lot of different things, but it is all so sloppy and time consuming. Isn't there an easy way to just display a table in a grid?
the solution here turned out to not use Crystal Reports. To use alerts in SAP BizOne. It works great for a quick well formatted data subscription case
A Crosstab can display results in a footer after the main report has been run. This is the least "time consuming" option, as you put it.
Otherwise the quickest way to turn an existing report into a "table" is to simply add line elements that span from the header to the footer, dividing your fields into columns. The line elements will resize such that they cover all sections:
I'm using Crystal Reports XI.
One of the text fields exports only data visible in the field. Other fields are fine: it doesn't matter what size are the fields on the design, they will still export full content to excel.
This is the only field I know that behaves this way. The only way I could find to preserve the data is to either:
expand the field to accommodate the longest possible description (which is not always possible even on A2 size), or
allow the field to grow (which results in exporting to multiple lines).
Is there any way to stop data from being clipped?
Hi Experts,
Is there any way to automatically grow the content of dynamic text
field in crystal report. I will give you an example this way.
I have values to display in crystal report as (which we fetch dynamically fromt the database)
Employee_ID, Employee_name, Employee_address
Now, the Employee_ID, Employee_name would be ok. But for
Employee_address the value can be anything from the database, i.e. it
can be lengthy also(like with 80 charectors also). That is it will come in next row and
overlap the below the row column ('address') value.
Now, is there any way(or formula), when one dynamic text field grows
like address, then previous two Employee_ID and Employee_address
should grow automatically and for next row the data should not overlap
also.
Please give ideas.
Thanks in advance.
If you mark the three fields can grow, then each field will expand (vertically) as necessary to accommodate the data. If the field does NOT need to expand, it won't. Moreover, if the three fields are arranged side-by-side in the same details section, there will be no overlap--either horizontally or vertically.
If you are trying to always bottom-align the three fields, regards of the vertical size of any of the fields (the address field in your example seems to be the issue), then you have a different problem:
Relative Positions
This option allows you to lock the relative position of a report object next to a grid object within a section. For example, if you place a text object one centimeter to the right of a cross-tab object, during report generation the program will push the text object to the right, so that the one centimeter space is maintained regardless of the width of the cross-tab object.
Note:
Only horizontal locking is possible. If you need to preserve relative vertical positioning, you should create a new report section.
Once Relative Positions is selected for a section, you can no longer drag objects to new positions within that section. To change an object's position, use the Object Size and Position dialog box.
Relative positioning applies only to objects placed to the right of grid objects (that is, objects that can grow horizontally).
I can able to create Excel document using Jasper Report but the problem is that fields are not properly aligned in the cells of excel sheet and all the data are populated in the plain surface without any cells.i.e) I cannot see any cells in the data populated area.Can u please give me suggestion to make proper Excel document with cell alignment.
I had this same struggle and came up with the following. At the time, I was using iReport (3.0.0) and was able to generate a good xls file. It may be easier in newer versions of iReport and/or JasperReports. Here's what I did:
I created a new report using the new report wizard and chose a tabular template. This creates a report with all of the fields in a line with no gaps between them. It is very key that fields are vertically aligned, that all the same height, and that there are no gaps between fields.
I removed all of the extra objects created (title, extra lines) except for the fields and the headers. I then collapsed all of the bands except the column header and detail bands.
On the report properties, I checked "Ignore pagination"
I changed the text color of the header fields, otherwise it ends up as white on white.
The rest of the important options can be found by selecting Options -> Export Options from the menu and then scrolling down to the "XLS Exporter" section. I attached a screen shot of the options I chose. You can experiment with the settings, but I found (through trial and error) that the options I ended up with work pretty well. These options are not stored in the report def file, they are attributes of the thing generating the report. iReport takes care of it when testing in that environment. We are using custom Java to generate the report in production and we set the attributes there.
XLS Exporter Dialog http://www.imagechicken.com/uploads/1270760205041768200.png