Runtime design of report in crystal reports 8.0

[shirishdawane]

Hello All,

I want to change design of report through VB, I mean to say how can I change any textbox location to other location within same report only?
My problem is that we have more than 50 reports & if any customer wants to change location of textbox to other location within same report then he not able to do that & for that small reason support engineer have to visit him for minor change in report.
So saving time as well as man power, can we provide such interface where user can do minor changes in report ?
Any ideas are appreciated...thanx.......

[mebhas]

text1.top=somevalue
text1.left=someothervalue

[shirishdawane]

sorry,

U did not get me. I want to open crystal reports 8.0 reports through VB for runtime design changes by user, but just for minor changes.....

[Hack]

Moved to reporting section.

[shirishdawane]

Hi Hack,

Actually I was supposed to post this thread In reporting section but this is link of Vb & Crystal reports therefore I did it in visual basic section... any ways thanx for moving it in reporting section but plz giev me satisfactory answer if it exists......

[shirishdawane]

Hi,

can u plz visit this link to get what I am saying :

http://support.businessobjects.com/library/kbase/articles/c2007290.asp

[pnish]

I may be wrong, but I don't think you can provide this sort of functionality without purchasing runtime licenses for each user of your application.

[RobDog888]

You are correct pnish. You need to purchase a single license for each and every instance of your program. So if you want to give this functionality to 10 users using your app then you need to buy 10 licenses.

The logic is that why would they want to buy other copies of CR if you can create a program and redistribute it thus eliminating the need for the designer.

[brucevde]

If you have the Developer Edition, you are allowed to use certain properties and methods of the CRAXDRT (and distribute the dlls) without purchasing another license. Basically, you can modify existing report objects via properties such as left, top etc. but cannot create reports or add/delete objects onto existing reports.

Check out the License.hlp file found in your installation folder for further information. It contains a list of properties and methods that can be use "Royalty Free" and those that require an additional license.

Here is some code to change the Left and Top property. Sorry, I don't have version 8 but 8.5 so not sure if this will work for you.

Option Explicit
Private objCrystalApp As CRAXDRT.Application
 
Private Sub Command1_Click()
    Dim objReport As CRAXDRT.Report
    Dim objField As CRAXDRT.FieldObject
    Dim objSection As CRAXDRT.Section
    
    Set objReport = objCrystalApp.OpenReport("M:\testing\report1.rpt")
 
    Set objSection = objReport.Sections("Section5") 'details section
    Set objField = objSection.ReportObjects("Field2")
    objField.Left = objField.Left + 2000
    objField.Top = objField.Top + objField.Height
 
    CRViewer1.ReportSource = objReport
    CRViewer1.ViewReport
    
End Sub
 
Private Sub Form_Load()
    Set objCrystalApp = New CRAXDRT.Application
End Sub
 
Private Sub Form_Unload(Cancel As Integer)
    Set objCrystalApp = Nothing
End Sub