VB Forum / Crystal Report / December 2003

Hi,
I am new to crystal report and I am currently working on a project
with crystal report 8 and vb 6.
What I have to do is only call a .rpt file from a vb interface. The

I'm exporting a crystal report to PDF (inorder to save it in the
database) using the following code:
iReturnCode = crPEExportToDisk(iJobno, sFileName, "u2fpdf.dll",
crUXFCrystalReportType, 0, 0, "", "")        '[crwrap32.dll]

Hi board,
currently iam thinking aout buying the crystal reports 9 serries. But how
does the programm interact with vb.net.
Or in other words: can I use the CR 9 serries in visual studio as well?

Using crystal reports 8.5, I built a report and then tacked on a union
statement to the end of the sql statement that crystal generated to
pull in additional results from another table.  The problem is that
when the query is run, it returns this error: "All queries in an SQL

I have 2 AS400 computers; one is a backup computer in our emergency
operations center. It is not accessible to any users, and gets a backup tape
restored to it each evening.
I have crystal reports 9. I'm using the ADO OLE DB data provider to make my

I have a report that list the location of computer equipment. I am
using the serial number to define each record and the date sorts it..
When I run the report on the individual unit I would like to have the
most current record seperated from the rest. So I can show the current

I have a database field inv.numpmts with a value of 48.
I entered the following formula (Basic Syntax)
if {Inv.NumPmts} > 1 then
   formula ={@NumPmts}-1

Is there any methods to edit the report values and can handle the changes??
My report application is completed but for the new requirment I want to edit
and update the field values in to database.
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I am working on the .net web project and need to display existing
Crystal report that has embedded image. I use CrystalReportVeiwer
object and everything is working ok, except the showing the image - it
looks like it does not exist. When I open this report in report

I have a report that shows timecard entries.  It is grouped by employee and
am needing a way to show a subtotal of time values.  The report shows:
Employee Name
Date/Time Stamp (date and time record was created)

Someone can help me with this problem?
I want to change in runtime mode my DB's path.
I have, embeded in my project (rptScheda.dsr), a crystal reports 8 report,
and I have the need to change in runtime mode the db's path that's read from

Is it possible to password protect an cr 8 report  file (rpt)? I don't want
to convert then into dsr because we are talking of about 200 reports. By
converting them will increase the size of the exe to about 10m. I don't want
that. I want to find a way to prevent anyone of making ...

I have field data coming in as "01" and for the life of me, I cannot get it
to display this as a string "01".  I've tried CStr, ToText and can't get it
right.  Closest I can get is 1
I'm using Crystal Reports 8.5.

I have a very big  problem, i created a report in crystal 8.5 using oledb
provider for Access (jet) to have access to the database. When i test the
report in the machine that i created its work ok, but when a change de
machine the report doesnt work!

Background
In a project we are using Crystal Reports 9 to print many documents /
reports. The requirement from Client is to print them on a DOT MATRIX
printer.