Hot off the presses and into my hands comes Brian Bischof's Crystal Reports Encyclopedia Volume 1: Professional XI Reports.  Brian's first book was an invaluable help in my work with Crystal Reports .NET, and this book looks to be just as good.  Many of these chapters were available online for free at ...

I received an e-mail in regards to my article Exporting to Excel in Crystal Reports .NET - Perfect Excel Exports: I have crystal reports that are displayed in PDF or Excel format from an ASP.NET application. The reports are displaying, my only problem is in Excel, I keep getting fixed width columns when exporting the report. On my localhost it ...

This is a question I see very often, and you can set the paper orientation in code-behind as such: ReportDocument.PrintOptions.PaperOrientation = CrystalDecisions.[Shared].PaperOrientation.Landscape Crystal Reports .NET ProgrammingIf you're new to Crystal Reports, or just to CR .NET, this is the book you need. Part how-to, part programming ...

''Server Application Unavailable The web application you are attempting to access on this web server is currently unavailable. Please hit the ''Refresh'' button in your web browser to retry your request. Administrator Note: An error message detailing the cause of this specific request failure can be found in the application event log of the web ...

If you haven't read the article ''CodeSnip: Opening Crystal Reports in a New Window in ASP.NET'' (http://aspalliance.com/525), do that before you read this.  I received this comment recently: When I tried this, it was blocked by Windows XP SP2. When I said to temporary allow blocked items, it stated it had to refresh, and then nothing ...

Like I don't have enough new things to play with already... Crystal Xcelsius is the award-winning data visualization software that lets you display complex Excel spreadsheet data as interactive and visually stunning executive summaries, scorecards, forecast models, visual analytic models and more. Simply import your spreadsheet into Crystal ...

There are several causes for this message, you should read all the information before trying any one of these solutions. 1) This is a known issue in some versions of Crystal Reports, and there is a hot fix at http://support.businessobjects.com/library/kbase/articles/c2012318.asp. Note that although the article's metadata indicate this hotfix is ...

I have a web forms application based on Crystal Reports .NET 2003, and one of the options I present users is the choice between HTML output (using CrystalReportViewer), or export to PDF or XLS.  All the reports from this application open in a new window (see http://aspalliance.com/525), which adds an additional problem with Win XP SP2.  Usually, ...

That window in the Crystal Reports .NET designer that shows the database fields, formula fields, etc. is called the “Field Explorer”, unless you need to reopen it.  If you need to reopen the Field Explorer, navigate View >> Other Windows >> Document Outline.  In the CR Designer, the Document Outline becomes the Field ...

Laying out a Crystal Report can be stressful, especially when you're guessing at how wide to make a field so string data fits.  The problem is, string database fields (such as nvarchar) are measured in characters, but text felds are measured in inches or centimeters.  You could guess at the field width, run the report, see if everything ...