VB Forum / Crystal Report / September 2003

I Created a report which contains 60 sub-reports. I want to suppress all the
sub- reports which contains blank data.
I check the existing crystal report format property "suppress blank
section", still it is not working.

I have the following selection filters in my report :
{WORKORDER.ACTSTART}  >= {?StartDateFilter}
and {WORKORDER.STATUS} like trim(uppercase({?StatusFilter} + "*"))
and {WORKORDER.LEADCRAFT} like trim(uppercase({?LeadcraftFilter} +

What should I look at to troubleshoot this error in CR version 8.0.0.371?
"Could not start the Crystal Input File Repository Server service on Local
Computer.
Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a

I have a report that displays values contained in a table. Out of the
70 records that should be displayed, only 13 appear. The reason for
that is because one of the fields displayed has no value for 57 of the
records.

Hi - I have created a report based on an ODBC XML data source. I want
to be able to change this data source at runtime (on an ASP page) such
that I can view different XML documents through the report.
Essentially the Crystal KB suggests the following line should do the

in previous versions of crystal, if you deleted the field from the detail section of the report, the
field title would also be deleted. i don't find that to be the case in the version of crystal that
ships with visual studio. i was wondering if there is some setting that i can turn ...

I work for a software house specialising in systems for large
financial institutions.  I am using VB6 (SP 4), CR8, SQL6.5 (on a
Windows 2000 Server).  My machine is running Windows 2000
Professional.

I am passing a number of values from ASP.NET page
to the Crystal Report in the parameter field which allows multiple
values. I created the following formula in Select Expert:
 field1 in {?myparam}

Does anybody have a good documentation about Crystal Reports Web Component?
I am using ActiveX.
Thanks a lot.
Leandro Loureiro dos Santos

I'm using Crystal Reports v8.  I want to have the report header on the
first page and then everything else on subsequent pages.  For the
report header I set New Page After to True.  This worked fine except
that I lose the page footer for the first page which I don't want.

Can any help me in providing a way to do the following?
Assume there are 10 records in the first page of the
crystal report, i need only 6 to be printed in the first
page and remaining 4 top be printed in the next page

Is it possible in crystal to produce a newspaper-type wrapped text. For
e.g., let us assume that am reporting on two columns of a table. Can I have
the data from the two columns repeated thrice along the report vertically as
below:

How to obtain last page number?
I upgraded from Crystal ActiveX Control (OCX) to Report Designer
Component (RDC) and Crystal Report Viewer.
Old OCX provided a function called PageCount, for example:

I am batch printing reports using the 'print on both sides' option.
The reports are of varying length- but generally 1 ,2 or 3 pages long.
I'm finding that when I print many reports at once, some reports begin
on the backside of the last page of the report previous.  I want every

Is there a way to force the page headings on a crosstab to repeat when the
report overflows horizontally creating a virtual page?