Questions tagged [crystal-reports-2008]

Refers to version 2008 of Crystal Reports (v12.*), a business-intelligence application used to design and generate reports. Crystal Reports came integrated with Visual Studio versions up to 2008.

Provides user with a very user friendly environment to design WYSIWYG reports. Crystal supports a variety of data connections ranging from XML to Excel to Relational databases such as Oracle, SQL Server etc.

The product was originally created by Crystal Solutions Inc as Quick Reports and by version 3.0 it was acquired by Seagate in 1994 and re branded it as Crystal Decisions and they rolled out versions from 4.0 to 9.0. By 2003 it was again subject to takeover by Business Objects and they subsequently released versions 10, 11 and 12. The product changed hands again in 2007, this time acquired by SAP and they had gone on to release the newer version as Crystal Reports 2011(14.0) in 2011.

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How do I point Crystal Reports at a new database

I have a Crystal Reports 2008 user that has over 100 custom developed reports. The reports all query Sql Server databases (SQL 2005). This database server is getting replaced with a new system (running SQL 2008 R2) and the existing databases will be…
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ERROR [IM014] [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] The specified DSN contains an architecture mismatch between the Driver and Application

how can i fix this error? ERROR [IM014] [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] The specified DSN contains an architecture mismatch between the Driver and Application.. it is occuring in a new project that i am doing... im using vb 2008 , MYSQL as my…
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How does the "send page by email" feature in Internet Explorer choose to send as the body of an email, or as an attachment?

When using the "Send page by email" feature in Internet Explorer for pages within our application that include a Crystal Reports ASP.Net viewer, it drafts the email in Outlook with the web page as an attachment, rather than as the body of the email.…
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extract raw SQL query from a Crystal Report .rpt file

I've got an .rpt file that I did not write and can find no documentation about. I want to be able to review the SQL that is generated from this report so that I can figure out, well, what data it was pulling and what WHERE clause parameters were…
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What is {ts '2013-04-02 00:00:00'}?

when i analyzing running T-SQL I found a query that have {ts '2013-04-02 00:00:00'} in where clause. i was so curious about this and tried to find the source. It was executed by a CrystalReport Report. here is the query. SELECT * FROM [Table]…
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Repeating Group header on each page in crystal reports

I have a main report and 1 sub report.In sub report i created a dummy group and checked repeat gh on each page to show headers in every page . But some times if the summary values came in new page the headers are not showing.(when there is no detail…
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Crystal report: keep group header and details on the same page

I've got group: header and details section in subreport. The problem is: when the group is in the bottom of the page it make the gap - header is in the one page and deteis are in the next one. How to keep together both sections? I've tried…
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Crystal Reports Cutting Off Text in PDF

I found this post on Crystal Reports Cutting Off Text in PDF, but it didn't solve my problem. I have a Crystal Report that contains a field within a text object (to control line spacing) and has "can grow" selected. When I export the Crystal Report…
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What HTML tags are supported in Crystal Reports 2008

I know by right clicking some text fields in Crystal Reports you can tell Crystal to render that report as HTML (See screenshots below). I'm wondering what the possible tags available in those fields is and what CSS/styling capabilities there are.…
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Crystal Report direct saving as PDF, instead of viewing

I want to make a report from ASP.Net, in Crystal Report. I want, when user click on print, it should simply show a browser dialog of Save,Open,Save as, and PDF should be saved, or Crystal Report print preview should appear, I don't want to display…
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Crystal reports error in SetDataSource

I am having trouble in VS 2010 sap crystalreports, using c# to make a windows application. I get the following error with the following code: CrystalReport1 cr1 = new CrystalReport1(); cr1.SetDataSource(dt1); //Error Could not load file or…
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Merge two or more Crystal Reports to a Single PDF

I have a CheckBoxList. If I select two or more values then the CheckBoxList SelectedValues would be passed as a Parameter one by one, and I want to generate the Crystal Report for each SelectedValue in PDF format and I want to merge all the Crystal…
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How to get the Weekly or 7 days of the Date Range in Crystal Report

How can I get the 7 days or weekly depends on date range in formula fields of Crystal Report? Example: Date Range from March 01, 2014 to March 31, 2014 Output: Week 1 (March 01 to March 07) Week 2 (March 08 to March 14) Week 3…
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Can you update a data table, without losing your columns in your report in Crystal Reports?

I have a Crystal Report that contains numerous fields and functions that all reference one SQL Server data view. Recently, I've had to make a copy of the underlying SQL data view and make a few modifications. I need to use my new data view as my…
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80070005 Access is denied,when asp.net website with crystal report is deployed on dedicated server

I have an asp.net application which is displaying the report using crystal report.The application is working properly on my local PC.I deployed this application on our dedicated server and also installed crystal report run time engine on dedicated…
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