I am a noob to CR 9.0...

[ILJester]

Hello everyone,

It has been years since I have used CR. The last version I was on was 8.5 I believe, maybe it was the intrinsic version that came with VB 4 or 5. Its been awhile, lets put it that way.

My company just purchased CR 9.0 for me to use with VB 6.0. Can anyone point me to a place where I can find a simple tutorial of just dragging the CR control onto a form and then run a sql query for a pre-built report.

All the samples that come with it, use the designer? Huh, I am not familiar with this at all. I just want to run some simple reports on the fly with sql queries. It really should not be this diffucult.

Thanks.

[ARPRINCE]

I design my reports outside the RDC. You can try something like this (I use SQL server SPROC to populate the report with data):

Option Explicit
 
Dim crxApplication As New CRAXDRT.Application
Dim crxReport As CRAXDRT.Report
 
Private Sub Form_Load()
   Set crxApplication = New CRAXDRT.Application
   Set crxReport = crxApplication.OpenReport("C:\MyReport.RPT")
   '-THIS IS FOR THE MAIN REPORT
   With crxReport.Database.Tables(1).ConnectionProperties
      .Item("Provider") = "SQL"
      .Item("Data source") = "SRV"
      .Item("Initial Catalog") = "NEW"
      .Item("User ID") = "USER"
      .Item("Password") = "USER"
   End With
   
   
'   crxReport.PrinterSetup (0) '<-- THIS BRINGS UP THE PRINTER DIALOGUE BOX
   
   CRViewer91.ReportSource = crxReport
   CRViewer91.ViewReport
End Sub
 
Private Sub Form_Resize()
   With CRViewer91
      .Top = 0
      .Left = 0
      .Width = Me.ScaleWidth
      .Height = Me.ScaleHeight
   End With
End Sub
 
Private Sub Form_Unload(Cancel As Integer)
   Set crxReport = Nothing
   Set crxApplication = Nothing
End Sub

[ILJester]

Hi there ARPRINCE. Thank you very much for the reply. I am kinda confused by a couple things though :

When you say you 'design your reports outside the RDC', does that mean you design from within CR application itself? I am assuming this is the case, and you use the database connection to build the report in design mode.

Also, I was kinda confused by you saying you were using an SPROC. I dont see the SPROC named anywhere in your example code, or is it just embedded in the report at design time? Or is this line for it -

With crxReport.Database.Tables(1).ConnectionProperties

I am kinda confused on the Tables(1) part.
I am not sure how I would pass parms if that is the case.

Anyways, thanks for the response.

[ARPRINCE]

When you say you 'design your reports outside the RDC', does that mean you design from within CR application itself? I am assuming this is the case, and you use the database connection to build the report in design mode.

YES

Also, I was kinda confused by you saying you were using an SPROC. I dont see the SPROC named anywhere in your example code, or is it just embedded in the report at design time?

YES

Try this one...

I am not sure how I would pass parms if that is the case.

Once you call the report from within your VB application, the report opens up a parameter pop-up automatically.

Hope this helps.