Crystal Reports™ 8.5 Developer's Guide

Report Designer Component 8.5 (RDC)
Reports to your application. The control is placed on a form, or in a container
within the form, and displays a new or existing report in design mode. This
presents the user with an interactive environment in which to design or edit the
report. The Embeddable Designer allows users to:
add data sources
add database fields
create and add formulas
create and add parameters
group data
summarize data
add charts
add subreports
add special fields
format fields and sections.
Note: For more information see “Embeddable Crystal Reports Designer Control
Object Model“, and “Programming the Embeddable Designer Control“ in the
Crystal Reports Developers Help (CrystalDevHelp.chm).
Create and modify Report Alerts
Report Alerts are custom messages created in either the Crystal Reports Designer, the
Report Designer Component, or the Embeddable Crystal Reports Designer Control.
Report Alerts may indicate action to be taken by the user or information about report
data. For more information see Report Alerts in the Crystal Reports User Guide.
Two new collections and two new objects have been added to the RDC object
model to allow you to create, modify, and monitor Report Alerts at runtime. These
collections and objects are:
ReportAlerts Collection
ReportAlert Object
ReportAlertInstances Collection
ReportAlertInstance Object
Note: More information on the Report Alert collections and objects can be found
in the Crystal Reports Developers Help (CrystalDevHelp.chm).
Convert database drivers
The data source your report is pointing to can now be changed at runtime by
converting the database driver. You can have this change reflected immedialtely in
your application, or save the report, and have the change take effect the next time
it is refreshed.
For more information see the ConvertDatabaseDriver method in the Crystal
Reports Developers Help (CrystalDevHelp.chm).
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