Crystal Reports™ 8.5 Developer's Guide

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RDC Architecture ................................................................................................ 17 Combinations of RDC Components ..................................................................... 19 Adding the RDC to your project .......................................................................... 20 How to Get Additional Information ................................................ 20 Crystal Reports User’s Guide ............................................................................... 20 Help System ........................................................................................................ 21 The Seagate Software Web Site ........................................................................... 21 Object Browser ................................................................................................... 21 Properties Window .............................................................................................. 21 Sample Reports ................................................................................................... 22 Sample Applications ............................................................................................ 22 Report Wizard ..................................................................................................... 25 Complex Applications ......................................................................................... 27 Chapter 4: Quick Start for using the RDC Overview ........................................................................................ 30 Bullet Point Quick Start .................................................................. 30 Open an existing report .................................................................. 31 Create and modify a report ............................................................. 33 Chapter 5: RDC Data Access Overview ........................................................................................ 40 The Data Explorer ........................................................................... 41 ODBC ................................................................................................................. 41 Database Files ..................................................................................................... 42 More Data Sources .............................................................................................. 42 Active Data Sources ........................................................................ 42 ADO ................................................................................................................... 42 DAO ................................................................................................................... 43 ii Book title
RDO ................................................................................................................... 43 Crystal Data Object (CDO) .................................................................................. 44 Data Definition Files ........................................................................................... 45 Data Environments .......................................................................... 45 Microsoft Data Link (UDL) files ........................................................................... 46 Report templates using unbound fields ................................................................ 46 Database Drivers ............................................................................ 47 Crystal Active Data Driver ................................................................................... 47 Chapter 6: Understanding the RDC Object Model Overview ........................................................................................ 50 A high level overview ...................................................................... 50 The next level .................................................................................. 51 The Primary Objects and Collections .............................................. 51 The Application object .................................................................... 53 The Report object ........................................................................... 53 The Areas collection ........................................................................................... 53 The Sections collection ....................................................................................... 53 The ReportObjects collection .............................................................................. 53 The FieldDefinitions collection ........................................................................... 54 The Subreport Object .......................................................................................... 54 The Database Object ...................................................................... 54 The DatabaseTables collection ............................................................................ 55 The DatabaseFieldDefinitions collection ............................................................. 55 Object Considerations .................................................................... 55 The Application Object ....................................................................................... 55 The Report Object ............................................................................................... 56 The Field Object ................................................................................................. 56 The Database and Database Tables Objects ........................................................ 56 Book title iii
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Page 7 and 8: Working with Formulas/Selection For
Page 9 and 10: Chapter 11: Working with Visual C++
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Page 13 and 14: Publish reports to the Web in secon
Page 15 and 16: Extend reporting abilities with add
Page 17 and 18: Re-import subreports 1 What’s New
Page 19 and 20: Integration Methods 2 This chapter
Page 21 and 22: The Report Designer Component 2 Int
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Page 27 and 28: RDC Architecture 3 Introducing the
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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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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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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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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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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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Index A Active Data driver database
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overviews Automation Server, (craxd
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