Is there a way in Crystal Reports 2008 to have a preview of page breaks while in design mode ?
I'd like to have a visual clue of when the page breaks while I'm designing a report, without
having to jump to the preview pane every now and then to check how it looks like...
Does that function even exists ?
I'm not familiar with CR2008, but intuitively I doubt it.
You could turn on every single "New Page Before" option in your Section Expert.
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I recently use jasper studio for making report like this.
I add border-left and border-right in subreport.
But result is different from what I wanted to do.
Of course I added border-left and border-right in Detail band directly, it made different result as well.
Although this way looks fine, whenever I click preview tab, a page that has blank detail band is following page which is okay.
anybody help me, please :)
I have a report that prints data in different details sections.
In the details b section I have the "Suppress Blank section" enabled in the section expert.
There is no problem when I run the report from crystal (the report preview shows all the data).
When the same report is run from an application where nothing but just conversion of the crystal data into PDF happens, I have some data missing.
However if I disable the "Suppress Blank section", all works fine.
I am not able to resolve this, any help or pointers would be helpful. Couldn't find a similar problem reported online.
I found the solution, it worked after I suppressed each element separately in the detail section when it was blank.
I am using Crystal Reports 2011. I am totally new to crystal reports and reporting tools in general. I just added my data fields to the details section, but instead of showing all the rows in one page, a new page is created for each row. I did not use any grouping or change the section paging settings.
This only happens for a blank report, when using the report wizard it works fine, but I can't see the difference between what I did and what the report wizard did.
The problem seems to have been a mix up with the sections, I've understood how these work now and got it to work. Thanks for the help.
I had 2 details section, so for every row in details1 it also displayed the information of details2 (which I only wanted to appear once). So I moved the data of details2 into a report footer.
Right click on your report and then go to Section Expert check Is Keep togather is checked
or New Page after or before in not checked.
Make sure that "New Page After" and "New Page Before" are not ticked. Also, Adjust the section sizes to the minimum you need.
In general, it sounds like you have a row data, inserted into the page header/footer section instead of the details section and therefore presented in each page...
I created a simple grouping report using BIDS 2008 and have set the following properties of a textbox to hide a row in the Table (or Tablix) control.
CanGrow = false
CanShrink = true
Hidden = true
The report displays fine in Preview mode, however, when I deploy the reports to the server and view it, it doesn't render the same way. While the row remains hidden (I set it to an obnoxious color to see if would display on the server), there's a huge gap between the headers and the details in the report.
My question is, does the preview mode using a different rendering engine than the Reports Manager?
You can check the versions of bids being used locally and on your server to see if they are the same.
Visual Studio Help > About > Find SQL Server Reporting Services in the list and click on it. I currently have Version 10.50.1600.1
Report Manager In a browser open your http://[ServerName or Address]/Reportserver. At the bottom it will also have the version number, make sure these are the same, otherwise you could have varying results.
Also, the rendering engine is different for the viewer compared to print/PDF. A quick test would be to overlap some items on a report. In the viewer, the rendering engine will seperate these items so they are not touching, while print and PDF will leave them overlapped. This is just one of the differences I've noticed.
Yes, I believe the rendering engines are different.
In preview mode, have you turned on "Print Layout"? I have found that will give you a much more accurate idea of what the report will look like on the server.
Is this gap the same size as the textbox?
We are printing our Crystal Reports via the Crystal .NET API PrintToPrinter method. Recently it was discovered that when printing Cross Tab reports (reports that span multiple pages horizontally), only the first page is printed and the other "virtual" pages are not. We can preview the Reports fine in the .NET Crystal Report Viewer control and they show the wide report we expect, but when we print using the PrintToPrinter() method the output is definitely not what we just saw in that preview. Only the first page prints and you can see the beginning of what should be the second page cut off.
When printing through the Crystal Designer, the other pages are printed as expected. Also of note is that when we print via the "Print" button on the .NET Crystal Report Viewer control, it also prints all of the expected pages (they're jut not paged as well as when printing through the Crystal Designer).
Only the PrintToPrinter method (both overrides) seems to print only the first page of the Cross Tab Report.
I'm wondering if there's just setting I need to be setting programmatically to make this work or if I have just missed somewhere out there that this is a known issue with the Crystal .NET API?