VB Forum / Crystal Report / June 2004

Crystal Report Adv. Developer Edition 10 with VS.NET 2003
Hi,
Truncate is not working correctly for me :(
I have a fomula with the following line in it:

the subject doesn't do a good job of describing it, but here it
goes...
crystal 8.5, ms sql server 7.0
table projects (project_id)

I have a main report which includes several sub reports.  I am using 2
parameter fields on the main report to capture "date from" and "date
to" from the user at run time.  My problem is that I want to base the
record selection in the sub reports on the parameter fields in the

I'm trying to print to a dot matrix printer in draft mode using crystal
reports for .NET. I use very simple reports (no lines, no Bold fonts etc)
using only printer fonts but I still can't make it print draft, the printer
head passes three or four times for each line of text. Is ...

Does anybody know if I can create a report completely at run time? I want to
be able to have the user do the complete selection of
columns/sorting/grouping/.... at run time. But I want to distance them from
the DB layout.

I have just installed VB .Net 2003 Standard edition which comes with
Visual Studio Tools. Works fine. According to the documentation in the
box, Crystal Reports is included with .Net. When in a project, the
docs say to go to File, Add New Item and then select Utility from the

I was trying to find out the best way to make an report with two different
formatted pages.
For example, the first page should display the Teacher list with 34 rows and
the second page

Running a Crystal Report from VB.net (VI 2003) gives me the following error meesage
  "File or assembley name CrystalDecision.CrystalReports.Engine, or one of its dependicies, was not found
The report is being run on an NT network and using SQL Server 2000
Thanks

Having trouble with a permissions problem in Crystal 8.5.  Under Citrix,
certain users (users without admin rights of some form) can't export to a
file (e.g. Excel).  At the point where they are supposed to see a dialog box
to tell where to put the file and what to call it, it ...

Hi, I am unable to set the custom paper size using VB 6.0 (with SP 6) and Crystal Reports 8.5. I need to set it to 8.5 Inches x 6.0 Inches (Width x Height). My printer does not support the User Defined Sizes
I have tried the following cod
crptobj.PaperSize = crPaperUser

How can I set:
x = Record001, Record003, Record008 of a {FieldName}?
I know I can select:
{FieldName} in ["record001", "record003", record008"]

Crystal Experts,
   This is got to be simplier than what I am doing... here is the
situation, please see if you can help...

I am having a problem with my report. I dont want the data saved
everytime I run the report. I want it to get the current data relevant
for this report. I am using crystal reports with VS.NET for a VB.NET
windows application. The crystal report is in VS.NET so there is no

I've created a Crystal report which extracts data from an Excel file.
Since the initial extract, I've added another column of data in the excel
file, and I'd like to add that as an object field in the Crystal report. The
problem is, that I can't see the new excel column (field) from ...

I'm new to Crystal, but would like to put together an invoice form (report).
Does anybody have a template that I may find useful. I plan to extract from
a simple database, and I want to be able to select on a particular invoice
number or range of invoice numbers.