urgent: how to give user the power of report formatting

[rehanqadri]

i am using fpw26 for my database project. one of my taks is to give user the power of formatting the reports i.e. setting column and row widths, changing fonts, inserting pictures, drawing line etc.
one of my collegue suggested me that i can do it by incporporating fpw26 with crystal reports but i was no able to do so.
pls help me in solving my problem.
i have 10 days left to submit the project. all of the work is completed. only this problem is bothering me.

thank you

 

[rgbean]

From what I know of CR, it really can't be controlled from FPW, just VFP. I believe you could always just provide CR as a stand-alone app.

For more info on FoxPro and CR, go to Craig's site and read his CR articles(

http://www.craigberntson.com/articles.htm)

and then check out his book at

http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalogpricelists/crysdev.htm.

If you post a question in "Microsoft: VFP - Databases, SQL&VFP, and Reports" - Forum1252, craig might even answer - he occasionally hangs out there!

Rick

 

[wanewrld]

Not knowing how your screens are layed out, you could put a button with a validation command: MODIFY REPORT ? , which would let the user select which report to modify. Then they could use the FPW report writer to do the modifications, and eliminate CR all together.

 

[vinczej]

The prior Tip is working, but do not forget
to put the status of report as EXCLUDE in .PJX.