Crystal Reports End-User Designer

Does anyone know if Crystal Reports has an end-user designer for .NET?hi,

Do you got any answer? i am also interested for that. Let me know if you got any answers.

Thanks in advance|||I dont think so. Check out here
http://support.businessobjects.com/sql

Crystal Report parameter issue

Hello,

There is probably a really simple solution to this problem... but, here it is..

I am working on CR Designer v11 and have a report that uses a stored procedure. Originally, when the report was created, this stored procedure had one parameter. Since then, however, I have added an additional parameter to the SP in SQL. After doing so, I opened the report, in report designer, and manually added the new parameter to the parameter list. I then realized that I did not need to do this. The Verify Database function should auto populate the parameter list for me. So, I then deleted the parameter(that I had created manually) and performed the Verify Database. But now the parameter does not auto populate in the parameter list.

By deleting the parameter (that I had created manually), did I cause the designer to ignore this second parameter in the actual SP? How can I get the designer to auto populate the parameter list with this new parameter?

Try this forum: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=77&SiteID=1

Crystal Report Designer In Application

Hi,

I am using crystal reports from last 5 years for smalll applications.
Can anyone tell me that how to make the crystal report designer be the integrated part of your module so that user of our application can make report for himself by using the our database object , and need not to depend on us for making reports, design change etc. and hence able to customize report.

I am using crystal report version 5.0 which version i need.
Can i use it with VC++
Which ocx. i have to incorporate.

Thanks
Nitin MahajanAFAIK
You can make it with Crystal Reports versions X & XI using RDC or API
(no OCX... version 8.5 was the last version that used OCX)
Also, You have to consider (pay for) some special license

Crystal designer features I can't find in SSRS

Coming from a Crystal background, I was assessing SSRS 2005 and ran into
two things I know will generate a lot of pushback from my coworkers. In
Crystal you can place group heading fields anywhere you want in a group
band, where as grouping appears to be accomplished in SSRS by consuming
an entire table column. I suppose I could fake it by making the detail
of the main report contain my grouping data and render the detail with a
sub-report, but that's overkill for such a common formatting feat.
Example (note the horizontal positioning of the group field):
Crystal lets us do this:
Group1
Detail1 Detail2 Detail3 Detail4
SSRS tables require me to group like this:
Group1
Detail1 Detail2 Detail3 Detail4
I would be thrilled if I'm just overlooking something obvious and you
can place a group heading anywhere you want.
Also, we recreate paper forms in some reports (invoices, POs, etc.) and
positioning of drawn lines and text is *much* easier when you zoom in
with the designer to 200%. I didn't see how to do this in SSRS
designer, what am I missing?
RobYou can always drag a field to be displayed on the group heading. infact
Group heading can be merged as well. So your way of empty column is avoided.
On the designer there is no Zooming but on the output you can zoom. So
basically WYSIWYG format on the designer.
Amarnath
"Rob Gamble" wrote:
> Coming from a Crystal background, I was assessing SSRS 2005 and ran into
> two things I know will generate a lot of pushback from my coworkers. In
> Crystal you can place group heading fields anywhere you want in a group
> band, where as grouping appears to be accomplished in SSRS by consuming
> an entire table column. I suppose I could fake it by making the detail
> of the main report contain my grouping data and render the detail with a
> sub-report, but that's overkill for such a common formatting feat.
> Example (note the horizontal positioning of the group field):
> Crystal lets us do this:
> Group1
> Detail1 Detail2 Detail3 Detail4
>
> SSRS tables require me to group like this:
> Group1
> Detail1 Detail2 Detail3 Detail4
>
> I would be thrilled if I'm just overlooking something obvious and you
> can place a group heading anywhere you want.
> Also, we recreate paper forms in some reports (invoices, POs, etc.) and
> positioning of drawn lines and text is *much* easier when you zoom in
> with the designer to 200%. I didn't see how to do this in SSRS
> designer, what am I missing?
>
> Rob
>