Displaying Hierarchical Reports A hierarchical report shows the relationship between records in the same table using a tree format. An example is an Organization Chart that uses the personnel table to display a list of its employees and their supervisors. Each employee has a record in the personnel table. But each employee also has a […]
3.33 Tutorial 3-11. Breaking Reports Apart By Group
Tutorial 3-11. Breaking Reports Apart by Group As discussed earlier in the chapter, the properties New Page Before and New Page After are used to cause page breaks between groups. This lets you break apart the report and distribute the individual pages. Unfortunately, setting these properties causes a blank page to be printed either at […]
2.06 Adding Report Objects
Adding Report Objects The majority of your time spent designing reports is spent working with the report objects. Crystal Reports gives you many types of objects for designing reports. Learning how each works is critical to being a proficient report writer. This section covers most of the available report objects (the more complex ones have […]
2.07 Tutorial 2-1. Formatting Text Objects
Tutorial 2-1. Formatting Text Objects This tutorial demonstrates various formatting properties of the text object. Over the next few pages, you’ll add text objects to the Sandbox.rpt report and see how different formatting options affect the output. Add a text object to the report by right-clicking anywhere on the report and selecting Insert Text Object. […]
2.08 Tutorial 2-2. Applying Multiple Formatting Properties
Tutorial 2-2. Applying Multiple Formatting Properties Add a new text object anywhere on the report and make it tall enough to show a few lines of text. But don’t make it too long. Enter some text to fill up the text object. Notice how the cursor automatically moves to the next line when it gets […]
2.09 Fields That Can Grow
Fields that Can Grow When working with database fields, it’s common to show fields that display a large amount of data. For example, an inventory table can have a Description field that stores a lot of data. Depending upon the inventory item, some descriptions will be short and other will be long. When you add […]
2.10 Formatting Strings, Numbers, and Objects
Formatting Strings The tutorials earlier in the chapter showed you different ways to format a text object. But it didn’t discuss every formatting option available. The Format Editor has many more options for modifying the way string based report objects appear. The different formatting options are available for textbox objects as well as formulas, report […]
2.11 Printing Wingding Fonts
Printing Wingding Fonts Don’t think that printing graphics involves just displaying JPG and BMP files. You can also get some interesting results using the non-standard fonts. One font in particular that is very useful is the Wingdings font. You can add special symbols such as checkboxes, arrows, folder, etc. For example, open the Windows Character […]
2.12 Printing Other Objects
The Chart Object The Chart object lets you add a chart to your report. There are a variety of options to choose from so that you can customize it however you need. There is so much to cover with this object that it was given a separate chapter. See Chapter 12 for more information. The […]
2.13 Moving and Sizing Report Objects
Moving and Sizing Report Objects Even though we all wish our reports were perfect the first time through, this is rarely the case. After adding objects to the designer, you frequently need to reposition objects and change their size. An earlier section of this chapter showed you how to add report objects to the designer. […]
