Don't need no stinking border

[dean12]

Crystal seems to have this desire to place a single-line border around sub-reports when they are inserted. Any way to turn this off? I don't need no stinking border!

 

[RobertKaiserIII]

Nobody needs those steenkin borders either. I don't know of a way to stop CR from automatically adding them to subreports. You can remove them by right clicking on the subreport object, selecting Format Subreport | Border tab | set the line styles of all sides to None.

 

[dean12]

Yea, what a pain - with a minimum of 2 subreports to each main report, that's lots of wasted clicks.

 

[mbarron]

Here is a work around I use:

Add a text field (the "ab" icon) and format it to "can grow"
Select your sub-report(s) and the text field. (Ctrl+click)
Click on the text field last.
Right click, and Format Objects, then just click "OK"
Whammo - your borders are gone.
Delete the text field.
Mike

 

[RobertKaiserIII]

That should help dean12 a lot. That particular feature of sharing object properties among group selected objects has caused me some trouble in the past when unwanted properties were copied over into other objects without my knowledge. But that won't happen in dean12's case and should work perfectly for him.

 

[kenhamady]

Just note that this behavior went away with v9. Now the objects keep all of their original properties, and only pick up the specific properties changed for the whole group of objects. A mixed blessing. Ken Hamady, On-site Custom Crystal Reports Training & Consulting
Public classes and individual training.
Guide to using Crystal in VB

http://www.kenhamady.com/

tek@kenhamady.com

 

[dean12]

Cool idea - normally I cuss the shared properties concept when certain properties "disappear" and I didn't intend it.

I'll give it a try - thanks.