How to to find length of the text box at design time in CR 6.0 2

[vechalapu]

Hi,

I need to design text boxes with fixed length i.e. a text box of 4 chars long. Is there any way in CR 6.0 to accomplish this?

Thanks,
Babu Vechalapu

 

[StevenK]

I would suggest setting up a formula to be a substring of the first four characters of the database field as required. That way when you include the formula on the report you will only see these first four characters.
Hope this helps,
Steve

 

[vechalapu]

Hi,

I would like to create an header with fixed number of bytes in between each text box. For example I need to display date field with 8 char length followed by 2 bytes white space followed by report header. Please let me know if I can achieve this using the above solution.

 

[StevenK]

I'd suggest creating a number of formulas and putting these into a text field one after the other - you should be able to generate the required results.
Regards,
Steve