Previewing report in VB

[deangelis]

Hi,
I'm using CR8.5 e VB6. In my application I'm not using the new RDC but yet the OCX control for exporting the reports; but now, I want to view the preview of the report in the VB application. In the manual of CR I found the Report Viewer Control, but it has seemed to understand to me that with the Report Viewer I can use only a report made with the RDC and not the Ocx control. This is the phrase in the manual:

"The ReportSource property can accept a report in the form of a Report Object exposed by the Report Designer Component or the Crystal Web Report Server"

So, with the ocx control is not possible to preview the report?
Bye
N@pol€on

 

[SurfingGecko]

The OCX does not create a report. You need to call a report using the reportfilename property. The OCX, then call upon the print engine to view the report. This has its own viewer.

The crviewer, is a piece of the RDC.

and not to be used with the OCX. You need to assign a report source to the viewer so it knows what to load.

Basically, you need to migrate your application to use the RDC rather than the OCX. Check the Crystal site for this doc

http://support.crystaldecisions.com/communityCS/TechnicalPapers/scr8-ocxtordc.pdf.asp

Cheers,

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[kenhamady]

The PrintReport command should preview the report.

Ken Hamady, On-site Custom Crystal Reports Training & Consulting
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[SurfingGecko]

Ah yes. My bad. Thank you Ken

Also the .Action=1 will do the same an has more error handling than the .PrintReport method.



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