Crystal Reports - What am I doing wrong?

[sjn78]

I have VB 6 and using the crystal reports that comes on the cd.

I have read a few threads about this but nothing has been able to help me. I cant get anything working to do with the reports.

Firstly, I want to know if I have the right components on the form. I have the CrystalReport and CRViewer on there.

I have created a report in crystal reports and saved it.

Now, is this correct, should I read that report into the app and display it? If so, what is the quickest and easiest way to do this.

Any help would be great, as I am stuck with this

Thanks

Steve

 

[MarkSweetland]

If you have the old CrystalReport OCX on the form, you don't need the viewer. It's contained in the OCX. You can access the report this way:

' Put the OCX on the Form and in the Form_Load event put:
CrystalReport1.ReportFileName = &quot;<path to your report>&quot;
CrystalReport1.Action = 1

I suggest looking into the Crystal Report Design Component (RDC) which integrates into the VB IDE and uses the CRViewer.

Mark

 

[sjn78]

Thanks for that, I have finally seen how it is suppose to work.

Just one other thing, can you refresh the report?

eg, The report was generated from a database and that database in used in the app. Now that the database has changed, is there a quick way to refresh the report or is that not possible with this method.

Thanks

Steve