Crystal Reports™ 8.5 Developer's Guide

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©=2001 Seagate Software Information Management Group Holdings, Inc., 915 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, California, USA 95066. All rights reserved. Seagate, Seagate Software, Crystal Reports, Crystal Enterprise, Crystal Analysis, Seagate Info, Seagate Holos and the Seagate logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Software Information Management Group Holdings, Inc. and/ or Seagate Technology, Inc. All other trademarks referenced are the property of their respective owner. Documentation Issue 1. Febuary 2001. No part of this documentation may be stored in a retrieval system, transmitted or reproduced in any way, except in accordance with the terms of the applicable software license agreement. This documentation contains proprietary information of Seagate Software IMG Holdings, Inc., and/or its suppliers.
Contents Chapter 1: What’s New for Developers Web Reporting .................................................................................. 2 Increased value of the Crystal Enterprise Web Component Server ......................... 2 Complete XML support for the Web ...................................................................... 3 Improved interactivity with parameters .................................................................. 4 Customizable DHTML Report Viewer ................................................................... 4 Display web reports independent of server location .............................................. 4 Extend reporting abilities with additional applications ........................................... 5 Additional Web reporting features ......................................................................... 5 Report Designer Component 8.5 (RDC) ............................................ 5 Crystal Report Viewer ....................................................................... 8 Additional information ...................................................................... 8 Chapter 2: Integration Methods Overview ....................................................................................... 10 Integration methods ........................................................................ 10 The Report Designer Component .................................................... 11 Visual Basic and Office 2000 (VBA) Developers .................................................. 11 Visual InterDev Developers ................................................................................. 12 Visual C++ Developers ....................................................................................... 12 Evolution of Integration Capabilities of Crystal Reports ........................................ 12 The Best Tool for Your Needs ......................................................... 14 Chapter 3: Introducing the Report Designer Component The Report Designer Component .................................................... 16 Design time ......................................................................................................... 16 Runtime .............................................................................................................. 16 Book title i
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Page 17 and 18: Re-import subreports 1 What’s New
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Page 23 and 24: 2 Integration Methods The Crystal R
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Page 27 and 28: RDC Architecture 3 Introducing the
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DAO RDO 5 RDC Data Access ADO is th
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Data Definition Files 5 RDC Data Ac
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Database Drivers 5 RDC Data Access
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Understanding the RDC Object Model
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The next level 6 Understanding the
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The Application object The Report o
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6 Understanding the RDC Object Mode
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The Sections Collection 6 Understan
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RDC Programming 7 This chapter prov
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Index considerations CRViewer1.View
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7 RDC Programming Note: You put thi
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7 RDC Programming Now that you have
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CRXReport As New CrystalReport1 Dim
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Native connection to PC database 7
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Microsoft OLEDB Provider for ODBC D
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GetReportVariableValue 7 RDC Progra
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7 RDC Programming The following cod
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Adding a new group to the report 7
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ThiscodecangointheGeneralDeclaratio
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Working with Sorting Changing the e
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Working with Text Objects Simple an
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Programming the Crystal Report View
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8 Programming the Crystal Report Vi
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8 Programming the Crystal Report Vi
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Moving through a report 8 Programmi
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EnableProgressControl EnableRefresh
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Adding the Report Viewer Bean to th
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Programming the Embeddable Crystal
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Step 1: Creating the user interface
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9 Programming the Embeddable Crysta
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Type: CButton Member: m_OpenReport
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1 Add the code to the OnInitDialog
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CEmbeddable_DesignerDlg::OnOpenRepo
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Migrating to the RDC from the OCX 1
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Code Comparison between the OCX and
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Open the subreport. CrystalReport1.
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10 Migrating to the RDC from the OC
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Working with Visual C++ and Visual
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11 Working with Visual C++ and Visu
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11 Working with Visual C++ and Visu
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Index A Active Data driver database
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overviews Automation Server, (craxd
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subreports changing selection formu
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