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I am not using the smart viewr. I am exporting to pdf, word and excel and opening the file in a browser windo. The files get created fine on the server but cannot be viewed by some users

I have this exact problem that you describe. Blank report showing when trying to display an exported report. I was wondering if you ever found a solution

I am using the Crystal Viewer that comes with version 8.5. The viewer works fine on my development machine when I access reports from the webserver. The problem is that when another client attempts to run reports that does not has crystal installed the ActiveX Viewer does not download. I...

I am exporting a report to a pdf format using ASP. The coding works fine and creates the report on the server. However when I redirect to the pdf file it shows up blank. When I open the file from the server it appears fine. So I no that the export functionality is working fine. I tried...

No - you can only export to pdf in version 8.5. Crystal has a patch for 8.0 that supports pdf but it is not stable. I would not suggest using it

I would like certain values in a FORM to show up in a different format (i.e BOLD) depending on values in another table. I am viewing the form in tabular format. First of all can I do this? It seems that all of the formatting properties apply to the whole column when I only want the format to...

Here is a code example that connects to an Access 2000 database that has a password. Note the "OLEDB:Database Password" tag. This is how you pass in the database password dim g_adoDatabase as ADOD.Connection g_adoDatabase.CursorLocation = adUseServer g_adoDatabase.Open...

I am tryin to open the "Select New Data Source" Dialog using ADO. I want the user to be able to select from all the ODBC connections available and to be able to add a new one when attempting to open an ADO connection. This was very easy to do when using the OpenDatabase method under...

The above does not work for tool tips. To eliminate the tooltip the only way I found is to select a report object in the designer, right click on format..., goto the common tab and select the formula button next to the tooltip. Insert a "chr(9)" without quotes as the formula. Do...

As you suggested, I had to create the report from scratch using the VB6 designer then there was no problem. Thanks for your help

its an old report held over from version 6, so I dont think it was designed with the active driver. Can I easily convert it ovrer to use the active driver?

I'm using VB6 and Crystal 8 and Access 97 to display a report. I want to change the data source at runtime. When I try to do this I get the following error "Data Source name too long". I changed the path and name of the Data Suurce name so that it was 8 characters long and I still...

I'm using VB6 and Crystal 8 to display a report. I want to change the data source at runtime. When I try to do this I get the following error "Data Source name too long". I changed the path and name of the Data Suurce name so that it was 8 characters long and I still get the same...

all you have to do is create an ADO rs containing the result set for the Query of interest and set it to the recordset property of the data control. Then you have to refresh the datacontrol. Assuming you have a grid connected to the data control, it will display the new results. Set...

It depends if your users need to open Access 97 to admin the database. If not then you do not need the Access 97 app to be installed and therefore do not need a license. Data access is handled by the DAO runtime libraries which you can install with your VB App. If you need to have users...