Stupid Crystal Report Question

I am building a little report to be displayed on a windows form. I am creating a data set on the fly and pushing that to the report.

My question is how do I add the appropriate fields to the report in design mode if I can't see the the fields since I am building the dataset on the fly.

I have attached the table I am working with to the report to get fields but as soon as I delete the table the fields go with it.

Do I use unbound fields then bind them on the fly, I just don't know.

I hope this makes sense, I am assuming there is a simple trick to this!!!

Frank

I attached the tables in the report with an oledb connection. Then I found an example of pushing the user login information to the report . Once I pass the user logon information to the report, the report comes up right away with out asking for a second logon screen.

Private Sub LogonToReport(ByVal server As String, ByVal database As String, ByVal userID As String, ByVal password As String)

Dim logOnInfo As New TableLogOnInfo()
Dim table As Table

' Set the connection information for the table in the report.
For Each table In PatientReport.Database.Tables
logOnInfo.ConnectionInfo.ServerName = server
logOnInfo.ConnectionInfo.DatabaseName = database
logOnInfo.ConnectionInfo.UserID = userID
logOnInfo.ConnectionInfo.Password = password
'logOnInfo.TableName = table
table.ApplyLogOnInfo(logOnInfo)
Next table

Yes, its possible to bind the objects during runtime. But that is too much work. You can quickly create a dataset object and base the report off that. Then delete it when you are done. Connect during runtime and your fields will print fine. The way you did it, creating a temporary OLEDB connection also works.

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