Crystal Reports

[Janitor]

Can someone give me a place to look to find examples of utilizing Crystal Reports? Thanks.

Jay

[Chris]

I have write few application using Crystal report, May I know what kind of utility you are looking?

[Janitor]

I'm looking to generate a very simple report and send it to a printer. Nothing fancy. A new client of mine has Crystal Reports and wants it integrated into a database system they have. I have never worked with it, and wanted to see some basic examples of its use. Thanks.

Jay

[Tonatiuh]

I just want to see what it can do.

[Buzby]

I've used Crystal since the version that shipped free with VB3. I now use version 7 (version 8 has just been released), and although I have a few user-friendliness grumbles in the whole it is a good product.
Basically, you select the datasource, link tables together (like in Access) drop fields and text labels onto a report - drop lines, pictures etc etc, set up grouping, sorting etc.
You can control almost everything visual on the report by means of formulae - for example, if [price]<0 then color=Red else color=Black etc etc - but you don't need to use these formulae to achieve pretty good results.

See http://www.seagatesoftware.com/products/crystalreports/

for more details.