As an relatively competent user of VB I was using the inbuilt capability of VB to create reports until I realised that VB was very limited. Solution - Crystal Reports, which is VERY versatile. Initially I was given some guidance on how to create reports save them as .rpt format and then use in RDC mode. This seemed to be OK but I needed to perform a fair bit of independant field writing directly to the form, and I could not find any easy way to do this using RDC, so I decided to use Crystal (ActiveX) and make the crystal reports similar to VB reports (.DSR) This has been very successful - so far. (eg. <Report object>.text1.settext "text required"
BUT the help files seem to give more information on RDC and I am unable to find out how to pass a parameter field from VB to Crystal .dsr. I am now wondering whether there is a 'best'or 'preferred' method (ie either rdc or dsr) or are there good reasons for using one or the other.
The assistance given by this forums members is excellent and based on the replies I suppose I would try to concentrate on the preferred method.
BUT the help files seem to give more information on RDC and I am unable to find out how to pass a parameter field from VB to Crystal .dsr. I am now wondering whether there is a 'best'or 'preferred' method (ie either rdc or dsr) or are there good reasons for using one or the other.
The assistance given by this forums members is excellent and based on the replies I suppose I would try to concentrate on the preferred method.