create another query

hi , I new in sql reporting services.
I have a report with a query . now for every record it printed I need to create another query to another table and to some calc and print the value . how do I do this .

in other reporting program that I used before, they allow me to create multi body report. each body report allow me to defined a query .
thks

There are many options available in RS. You have the ability to have multiple datasets which can be used within the same report. You also have the ability to use sub-reports and linked reports. Could you be a little more specific with what you are trying to do?|||can you point me to example how to do multiple dataset in one report?

let me give example what I try to do with a report
AAA> mean result from default query
BBB> mean result from another query

-- header
Report Listing
--Body-
student ID : AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
student name : AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Family
BBBBBBBBBB
BBBBBBBBBB
BBBBBBBBBB

Classs : AAAAAAAAAAA
group : AAAAAAAAAAAA
-footer-

thks
|||

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms156288.aspx

This might help.

Create an index in a PDF file

Hi!!

I have a report that is exported to a PDF file... Is possible to get an index in the beginning of the file? I have the page number at the bottom of each page but i would need an index...

Thx in advance!!

Any idea? Isn′t possible to do it? At the moment, I havent found anything linked with this...|||

Hi Sergio,

Do you mean a document map? Check out this link: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms156383.aspx

|||

Hi Brad!!

not exactly... i would like to appear something similar but in a page in the beginning of the PDF document including the page number where each element is, i.e. the tables of the document... is there any option to do this? it′s very similar to the document map but with the page number...

I see two problems:

- I was thinking of using "=Globals.PageNumber" but i can′t, it says me that only can be placed in the header or the footer...

- and the other problem is setting the content of the document map in a page of the PDF... could I do this?

Perhaps, this is a bit difficult but I am always looking for challenges ... any suggestions? thx in advance!!

Sergio

|||I know of no way to accomplish exactly what you are looking for sorry to say. The document map links to items as repeated on pages. But I am not sure what you mean by "setting the content of the document map in a page of the PDF". If you mean as a page, there is no way to control this.|||

Hi Brad,

that was exactly i ment: i want to show it as a page, but if there is no way to do it... anyway, thank you for your help...

Sergio

Create an email link within the report...

Hello...

I have a column of data on my report that contains an email address. Is it possible to format this so that the person running the report can just click on the link and have that action launch their email program...like Outlook?

thanks for any help

- will

Hi Will - Yes, you can use expressions to build "mailto:" URLs, and set these for the "jump to" value in the navigation tab for the field properties.

|||

Thanks for the reply and info...this worked great.

- will

Create a Table of Contents in Reporting Services

Hi,
I need to be able to create a Table of Contents for a Price List
Catalog in Reporting Services. Using the AdventureWorks example report
(Product Catalog.rdl), I need to be able to create something similar to
the following:
Table of Contents
Accessories
Bike Racks 2
Bike Stands 2
Bottles and Cages 3
Cleaners 4
Fenders 4
Helmets 5
Hydration Packs 5
Lights 6
Locks 7
Panniers 7
Pumps 8
Tires and Tubes 8
Bikes
Mountain Bikes 13
Road Bikes 15
Touring Bikes 19
Clothing
Bib-Shorts 22
Gloves 23
Jerseys 24
Shorts 25
etc.
It seems that Reporting Services would have something built into it to
do this since it is similar to the Document Mapping feature, but I have
not been able to locate it. Has anyone out there done this? Or have
any suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
Amy BoldenDoes these values all come from a data set? Then you could give you the
names of the items if you create a table against that dataset, and just show
the categories and subcategories. I'm not sure how you could do the page
numbers, though. In first case, I find that page numbers sometimes get
really mixed up when you save a report to PDF, because it behaves
differently in the browser than in the exported document. Also, I'm not sure
if you can pick up the page numbers that the report renders. You might be
able to do some tricks by counting items in each subcategory and dividing
them by a given number of rows, which would approximately give you the right
page numbers.
Do you have to have the page numbers? If not, you can use Jump to navigation
to jump from the table of contents to any of the items in your report /
catalogue.
Kaisa M. Lindahl Lervik
"Amy" <abolden@.lexington.com> wrote in message
news:1164643397.216130.159050@.j72g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
> I need to be able to create a Table of Contents for a Price List
> Catalog in Reporting Services. Using the AdventureWorks example report
> (Product Catalog.rdl), I need to be able to create something similar to
> the following:
> Table of Contents
> Accessories
> Bike Racks 2
> Bike Stands 2
> Bottles and Cages 3
> Cleaners 4
> Fenders 4
> Helmets 5
> Hydration Packs 5
> Lights 6
> Locks 7
> Panniers 7
> Pumps 8
> Tires and Tubes 8
> Bikes
> Mountain Bikes 13
> Road Bikes 15
> Touring Bikes 19
> Clothing
> Bib-Shorts 22
> Gloves 23
> Jerseys 24
> Shorts 25
> etc.
> It seems that Reporting Services would have something built into it to
> do this since it is similar to the Document Mapping feature, but I have
> not been able to locate it. Has anyone out there done this? Or have
> any suggestions?
> Thanks in advance,
> Amy Bolden
>

Create a string from report parameters, return checksum

Hi,
We want to add an extra checksum parameter to our RS report, and make the
report work only if the correct checksum is entered/passed based on all the
other parameter fields, as a simple security check when rendering reports
from a system with its own security system (users not in AD/domains).
1. How do I construct a stored procedure that creates a string consisting of
all but the last parameter and returns a checksum ? (checksums we know how to
create from strings)
2. How do I filter my report based on that ?
"where ... and @.checksum = checksum_proc.checksum" ?
Report and parameters ex.
report1: product_string, checksum
report2: customer_string, department_string, date_string, checksum
Or is there a better way ?
/JeromeOn Mar 5, 6:04 am, /jerome k <jero...@.discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
> We want to add an extra checksum parameter to our RS report, and make the
> report work only if the correct checksum is entered/passed based on all the
> other parameter fields, as a simple security check when rendering reports
> from a system with its own security system (users not in AD/domains).
> 1. How do I construct a stored procedure that creates a string consisting of
> all but the last parameter and returns a checksum ? (checksums we know how to
> create from strings)
> 2. How do I filter my report based on that ?
> "where ... and @.checksum = checksum_proc.checksum" ?
> Report and parameters ex.
> report1: product_string, checksum
> report2: customer_string, department_string, date_string, checksum
> Or is there a better way ?
> /Jerome
Here is another option you might want to consider. You might want to
have a report parameter that has a string datatype and is used as a
password. You might pass the password entered by the user back to the
stored procedure and if the password matches one in a list somewhere
(table, etc) you send the complete dataset back to the report;
otherwise, you send back no data or a single line of all nulls or a
text message of "you do not have correct permissions to access this
report" to the report. Also, to enforce security, you might create the
stored procedure using "with encryption" that way noone can look at
the logic -or- you could add a certain number of characters to the
true password in a table and just remove them when you do the table
lookup for the passwords. Hope this is helpful.
Regards,
Enrique Martinez
Sr. SQL Server Developer|||Thanks,
The report must be started with a URL (cant render reports from our system)
and should only be allowed for a certain combinations of parameters set by
our program, ex product 100 with department A. The user must not seconds
later go to the reportserver and manually enter product 100 with department B
with the same password.
If using a "one-time" password parameter, will this mean we should store all
parameters in a table as well ? If we delete the stored password in the
procedure, is it possible for the user to re-render the report to Excel etc
?
A last checksum question: Is there a function to be used in a stored
procedure that gets current report's parameter 1, 2 ... ?
/Jerome k
"EMartinez" wrote:
> On Mar 5, 6:04 am, /jerome k <jero...@.discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We want to add an extra checksum parameter to our RS report, and make the
> > report work only if the correct checksum is entered/passed based on all the
> > other parameter fields, as a simple security check when rendering reports
> > from a system with its own security system (users not in AD/domains).
> >
> > 1. How do I construct a stored procedure that creates a string consisting of
> > all but the last parameter and returns a checksum ? (checksums we know how to
> > create from strings)
> >
> > 2. How do I filter my report based on that ?
> > "where ... and @.checksum = checksum_proc.checksum" ?
> >
> > Report and parameters ex.
> > report1: product_string, checksum
> > report2: customer_string, department_string, date_string, checksum
> >
> > Or is there a better way ?
> >
> > /Jerome
>
> Here is another option you might want to consider. You might want to
> have a report parameter that has a string datatype and is used as a
> password. You might pass the password entered by the user back to the
> stored procedure and if the password matches one in a list somewhere
> (table, etc) you send the complete dataset back to the report;
> otherwise, you send back no data or a single line of all nulls or a
> text message of "you do not have correct permissions to access this
> report" to the report. Also, to enforce security, you might create the
> stored procedure using "with encryption" that way noone can look at
> the logic -or- you could add a certain number of characters to the
> true password in a table and just remove them when you do the table
> lookup for the passwords. Hope this is helpful.
> Regards,
> Enrique Martinez
> Sr. SQL Server Developer
>|||What do you propose to do to reject the user's request if it is invalid by
the rules (see thread: "Am I crazy or is there no form validation" in this
forum). I'm not arguing with you, just wondering what you think is the best
strategy here.
IAC, if I were faced with your requirement, I would probably have the users
submit their reporting URL to a small proxy web application that did the
validation you require against the user's credentials, etc. If the tests
passed (whatever they are) then the proxy would submit the request to the
report server and return the server's response.
By "small" I mean that you could probably get away with a simple APX page
for this, and in addition you would have the ability to return whatever type
of user feedback you wanted if the tests failed.
>L<
"/jerome k" <jeromek@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8A257C82-B978-446C-A2B7-0FFAC3773B32@.microsoft.com...
> Thanks,
> The report must be started with a URL (cant render reports from our
> system)
> and should only be allowed for a certain combinations of parameters set by
> our program, ex product 100 with department A. The user must not seconds
> later go to the reportserver and manually enter product 100 with
> department B
> with the same password.
> If using a "one-time" password parameter, will this mean we should store
> all
> parameters in a table as well ? If we delete the stored password in the
> procedure, is it possible for the user to re-render the report to Excel
> etc
> ?
> A last checksum question: Is there a function to be used in a stored
> procedure that gets current report's parameter 1, 2 ... ?
> /Jerome k
> "EMartinez" wrote:
>> On Mar 5, 6:04 am, /jerome k <jero...@.discussions.microsoft.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > We want to add an extra checksum parameter to our RS report, and make
>> > the
>> > report work only if the correct checksum is entered/passed based on all
>> > the
>> > other parameter fields, as a simple security check when rendering
>> > reports
>> > from a system with its own security system (users not in AD/domains).
>> >
>> > 1. How do I construct a stored procedure that creates a string
>> > consisting of
>> > all but the last parameter and returns a checksum ? (checksums we know
>> > how to
>> > create from strings)
>> >
>> > 2. How do I filter my report based on that ?
>> > "where ... and @.checksum = checksum_proc.checksum" ?
>> >
>> > Report and parameters ex.
>> > report1: product_string, checksum
>> > report2: customer_string, department_string, date_string, checksum
>> >
>> > Or is there a better way ?
>> >
>> > /Jerome
>>
>> Here is another option you might want to consider. You might want to
>> have a report parameter that has a string datatype and is used as a
>> password. You might pass the password entered by the user back to the
>> stored procedure and if the password matches one in a list somewhere
>> (table, etc) you send the complete dataset back to the report;
>> otherwise, you send back no data or a single line of all nulls or a
>> text message of "you do not have correct permissions to access this
>> report" to the report. Also, to enforce security, you might create the
>> stored procedure using "with encryption" that way noone can look at
>> the logic -or- you could add a certain number of characters to the
>> true password in a table and just remove them when you do the table
>> lookup for the passwords. Hope this is helpful.
>> Regards,
>> Enrique Martinez
>> Sr. SQL Server Developer
>>

Create a Sequential Line Count for Group...

I have a report that groups by item number but then is filtered by a
parameter to only show the top # the user has entered. Does anyone
know if it is possible to number the results I return so that the user
can see how that particular record ranks with other records? Basically
I want to be able to have the user see 1 for the top item sold, 2 for
the second most items sold, etc...Try using
=Rownumber(Groupname)
--
Wayne Snyder, MCDBA, SQL Server MVP
Mariner, Charlotte, NC
www.mariner-usa.com
(Please respond only to the newsgroups.)
I support the Professional Association of SQL Server (PASS) and it's
community of SQL Server professionals.
www.sqlpass.org
"Brent" <Brent.Raymond@.gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1126532242.793502.287600@.o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
>I have a report that groups by item number but then is filtered by a
> parameter to only show the top # the user has entered. Does anyone
> know if it is possible to number the results I return so that the user
> can see how that particular record ranks with other records? Basically
> I want to be able to have the user see 1 for the top item sold, 2 for
> the second most items sold, etc...
>

Create a scheduled report delivery through C#

HI,
Is it possible to create a sceduled delivery of a report through C#?
For example, if I wanted to send User1 a Report1 at 4PM, and I had to do
this in my C# application, can this be done, and how?
Please, I need to be sure.
Regards,
PM"PacMan" <PacMan@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:23E1E830-DC13-4D00-90AF-A6A7303CBEC1@.microsoft.com...
> HI,
> Is it possible to create a sceduled delivery of a report through C#?
> For example, if I wanted to send User1 a Report1 at 4PM, and I had to do
> this in my C# application, can this be done, and how?
> Please, I need to be sure.
> Regards,
> PM
Hello,
Yes you can do it, no problems.
The answer is not simple, you have to look for the API
CreateDataDrivenSubscription
But if you discover C#, .NET, WebServices, XML and Reporting services
perhaps you should ask some help to someone that already knows C#.
Remi|||Thank you very much. That's all I needed to know.
"Remi THOMAS [MVP]" wrote:
> "PacMan" <PacMan@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:23E1E830-DC13-4D00-90AF-A6A7303CBEC1@.microsoft.com...
> > HI,
> >
> > Is it possible to create a sceduled delivery of a report through C#?
> >
> > For example, if I wanted to send User1 a Report1 at 4PM, and I had to do
> > this in my C# application, can this be done, and how?
> >
> > Please, I need to be sure.
> >
> > Regards,
> > PM
> Hello,
> Yes you can do it, no problems.
> The answer is not simple, you have to look for the API
> CreateDataDrivenSubscription
> But if you discover C#, .NET, WebServices, XML and Reporting services
> perhaps you should ask some help to someone that already knows C#.
> Remi
>sql

Create a sales report

I am using SQL 2000 reporting service. I need to create a sales report
described below.
1. Return the top 10 clients in terms of the sales in Month/Year such as
Sep. 2006.
2. Return the sales to these 10 clients in the past 11 months of the above
entered date such as from Aug. 2005 to Aug. 2006.
3. Line them up to compare the sales in 12 months.
It's very easy to return the top 10 clients. However, I really don't know
how to complete the second retrun. Since the result should be based on the
return of the first query and the result of the first query is dynamic. Is it
possible to have this done in SQL reporting service? I can't find any related
document. Please advice.
Thanks.the Employee Sales Report sample report for Adventureworks does something
very similar to this...The drill down, I think, is either a link or subreport.
--
Wayne Snyder MCDBA, SQL Server MVP
Mariner, Charlotte, NC
I support the Professional Association for SQL Server ( PASS) and it''s
community of SQL Professionals.
"Jun" wrote:
> I am using SQL 2000 reporting service. I need to create a sales report
> described below.
> 1. Return the top 10 clients in terms of the sales in Month/Year such as
> Sep. 2006.
> 2. Return the sales to these 10 clients in the past 11 months of the above
> entered date such as from Aug. 2005 to Aug. 2006.
> 3. Line them up to compare the sales in 12 months.
> It's very easy to return the top 10 clients. However, I really don't know
> how to complete the second retrun. Since the result should be based on the
> return of the first query and the result of the first query is dynamic. Is it
> possible to have this done in SQL reporting service? I can't find any related
> document. Please advice.
> Thanks.

Create a Rolling summary field

I need to make a report that takes a rolling 12 month period.
Each row needs to show the sum of the current months value and all the 11 months prior.

For example, I have a count of items in their respective Months

2 - Jan 06
5 - Feb 06
2 - Mar 06
4 - April 06
2 - May 06
1 - June 06
2 - July 06
5 - Aug 06
2 - Sep 06
2 - Oct 06
4 - Nov 06
2 - Dec 06
2 - Jan 07
3 - Feb 07
1 - Mar 07

What I need as an output is

Jan 07 = 35
Feb 07 = 33
Mar 07 = 32

So each row sums the current and previous 11 rows.

I am using Crystal Report v10 and SQL Database.

Thanks,
DavidThe quick solution in my mind is.

Create a subreport and store the whole data in an array.
Now come to the actual report and while showing the current record you can sum the previous 11 months records from the array and show it there.|||Great thanks for the Idea, I got it working with an array and then another formula summing the 12 in the array. I haven't played with the chart function yet, i have to get all these fields totaling first. Any suggestions getting all the fields in the details section ploted into a chart (the ultimate goal. Each displayed point is a date and the summed 12 month total.|||Keep one thing in mind while dealing with the charts.

You can show/draw more then one values on change of some value. e.g on change of date you can show the sum of previous 11 months.

Also you can get the accumulative .

You have to explore the charts for your project.|||Thanks so much for your help. Sometimes I just need a little bump into the right direction and I can figure it out. I got it working now.

create a page index for a long crystal report

I have to create a page index for a long crystal report which is grouped by product group. Is there any way to create a page index using crystal report to identify the page number in which the product group is appear in the reportHi,

I think you can create Table of contents for the report in the Report header. I haven't worked on this as it requires CR 10... Im working on CR 8.x.. You can refer this article, which explains how to do it.

http://support.businessobjects.com/library/kbase/articles/c2011950.asp

Let me know if it works.

Bye,

Praveen|||Hi,

yes it can possible in CR 9 and CR 10 version,but we are using CR 8.x
is it possible in CR 8.x

thanks

sujesh

Create a Letter

hi there,
Anybody know how to create a letter using Sql Reporting. My report
format is given below please advice which tool item i should use and
how to justify the letter body.
where xxx is from database
Dear Mr xxxx
xxxx is pleased to confirm the receipt of the sub amt for the xxx
project. the details of which are as follows
sub for : xxx
all : xxx
two sentence here
please advice how can i do this...
thnxJust drag a list control expand till you get a decent size of the letter and
place various text box's inside, each will be placed as per your letter eg.
some has fixed text and couple of variable textbox eg. Name of the person.
in the properties of the listbox create group and give a page break. in your
case the group will be set on emp name.. so it prints in different page for
each emp.
Amarnath
"Murali" wrote:
> hi there,
> Anybody know how to create a letter using Sql Reporting. My report
> format is given below please advice which tool item i should use and
> how to justify the letter body.
> where xxx is from database
> Dear Mr xxxx
> xxxx is pleased to confirm the receipt of the sub amt for the xxx
> project. the details of which are as follows
> sub for : xxx
> all : xxx
> two sentence here
>
> please advice how can i do this...
> thnx
>

Create a hidden resource

Good day
I am using the CreateResource method (C#) to upload a jpg file to a report
server. I have completed this task, however I am manually navigating to the
Report Manager, going to the Properties section of the jpg file and checking
the "Hide in list view" checkbox.
I am sure this can be done programmatically, and I suspect it has to do with
this last parameter of the CreateResource method? Please could someone help
me.
ThanksI have managed to complete this, using the SetProperties method. The actual
property name I was looking for was "Hidden" - how simple :) I just set this
to "True"
"Imrahn" wrote:
> Good day
> I am using the CreateResource method (C#) to upload a jpg file to a report
> server. I have completed this task, however I am manually navigating to the
> Report Manager, going to the Properties section of the jpg file and checking
> the "Hide in list view" checkbox.
> I am sure this can be done programmatically, and I suspect it has to do with
> this last parameter of the CreateResource method? Please could someone help
> me.
> Thanks

create a global data source

Hi guys,

I have a number of reports deployed on the report server. I want to point all these reports to another data source. Currently, what I am doing is go to the individual report on the report server and change the data source property to point to the new data source. It is very tedious to do the same thing for all of the reports.

So, Is there any way to point all the reports under a project at one time.

Any idea is appreciated.

Thx!

I would use global replace. That's the only way that I know of.

|||

would u explain that a lil bit

thx

|||

At the top menu, click Edit -> quick replace.

In the find box, enter the old dataset name.

In the replace box, enter the new dataset name.

You may want to do a find next and replace on a case by case basis instead of replace all, because I'm not exactly sure how your project is set up.

|||This is exactly how we have our reports configured.

1. In your business intelligence projects, create a new "shared" data source that points to the database your are pulling your data from. If you are using more than once database, create a single shared data source for each database. Each data source will have a name. For this example, lets assume you created a datasource called "DS_TEST" that points to a database called "MY_DATA"

2. When you build your reports, always use the shared datasources that you created from step 1.

3. When you deploy the reports, they will still be looking for the datasources by name. From step 1, the reports are all looking for a datasource called "DS_TEST". If you developed the reports on the same machine that hosts reporting services, everything should work (although my environment is not set up this way so I have not tested this). If you developed the reports on one machine and deployed to another, you must create the datasource on the deployment machine. To do this, navigate to the reporting services home page where the reports are deployed and click the "Add New Datasource" link (if you do not see this link, then you do not have the correct permissions). Point the datasource to the database you want the reports to pull from, but make sure and name it "DS_TEST" or whatever name you choose in step 1. The reports will now use the datasource called DS_TEST on the server the report is deployed on..

By having the global data source, it makes it easy during development to point the reports to test data so we do not effect the performance of the live system, and later when the reports are deployed to the live system they naturally point to the correct data.

Create a dataset with .Net code and render report from it. Possible?

Hi

I wonder if it is possible to create a dataset in code and then feed it to a Reporting Svcs (RS) report and have it rendered on the data from this dataset.

My collegues does this with Crystal and it would break my heart if I cant do this with (RS)...

I have tried to find a solution but so far, no luck.

Anyone have any ideas?

/F

If you use the reportviewer control in local mode you can do what you say. If you want this sent straight to hard copy that also can be achieved. I'm not sure if that meets your requirement.

create "expand all" button.

Hello.

Is there a built in option of adding an Expand/Collapse all Button to my report?

I have a report with few groups and I want to give the user a simple way to expand all of them for easy view or collapse all of them so he can see only the groups header.

I thought about using an expression in the hidden property of the groups and try to control it with parameters but its looks like a lot of work.
I also predict problem with it if I'll try to sort the table and the page will refresh it self every time.

Is there something "of the self" for it?

Thank.
Roy.You want to enable drill down in the report.|||

Hi,

Did you find a way to do this?

Edmund

|||

Don't know of "off the shelf" for this.

I have gone down the Paarameter driven route and it is not that much work. the report I'm thinking of had three grouping levels and a report paramter that passed an iteger value (1,2 or 3) to an expression for the hidden property of the group header & footer and details rows. I used the switch() function rather than if() statements in my expression, just seems like less clutter once you are used to using it.

It wasn't that much work - half hour/hour. I also needed expressions for the appearance of the toggle items for the different groups because you will find that using the parameter approach you get a [+] when you should have a [-], but the expressions are pretty much the same.

I find it works well. My one problem is that after a user clicks "expand all" and the "view report" the report seems to "forget" any other parameters e.g a selected year or motnh. The report still displays okay but a textbox displaying the ReportItems!Parameteryear.Value goes blank and if the user clicks on a drillthrough link the it passes a nulll value through. Clciking refresh "reminds" the report of these other parameters and all is fine again. But if anyone has an explanation for this phenomenom I'll be grateful.

Another option would be to have a textbox on the report with text "Expand All" that jumps to a copied version of your report passing all the parameters, but you change the the properties of this report to display all detail. Report2 could have "Collapse All" textbox that drills back to report 1 where everything is nicely hidden again.

CRAXDRT.Application.OpenReport - VERY slow

I have a CR 8.0 report that's been running against MySQL through VB6 for several years now, without ANY problems.

Just a few weeks ago we changed to new servers, and all my reports are running just fine, except one, which also happens to be the biggest (~2.9M). The report is running from a network drive, although I've tried it on a local drive with no real difference in perforamnce. Here's the code I'm using to open the report:

Dim cr As New CRAXDRT.Application
Dim report As CRAXDRT.report

Set report = cr.OpenReport(fName)

Again, nothing special. This has run quite well until now. The query itself that the report generates is quite large, but executes against the MySQL server in around .2 seconds, which isn't nearly the delay I'm seeing.

This call to OpenReport takes close to 20 seconds. I'm sure this has something to do with the server change, but without information, there isn't anything that I can do do fix it...

Any ideas?I forgot to add: The report runs very fast in the Crystal Report IDE.|||Dear ejj,

Have you by any chance found the solution yet ?

I'm experiencing exactly the same problem as you described. We recently migrated our NT4 domain to a WIN2003 domain (with some new servers) and after that some reports have become slow when calling the openreport function.

The only difference is that I'm using CR9 and the report is also opening slow in the CR Developer.

Best regards,
TheDaoka|||Dear ejj,

Have you by any chance found the solution yet ?

I'm experiencing exactly the same problem as you described. We recently migrated our NT4 domain to a WIN2003 domain (with some new servers) and after that some reports have become slow when calling the openreport function.

The only difference is that I'm using CR9 and the report is also opening slow in the CR Developer.

Best regards,
TheDaoka

Well, I fixed it, but never found what the problem was.

Thourgh trial and error I removed stuff from the report until it got faster. There was a subreport in the report that I deleted and the whole thing spead up. I then re-created the SAME subreport with the SAME query and magically everything got faster.

I can't explain it. Same database, same data, same schema, etc. But, it works now. :confused:|||Hi Ejj,

I just found this in the latest hotfixes for CR9:

ADAPT00212276 Patch ID: 35846238
Description:
When a report contains subreports that are imported through UNC paths, the report is slow to open when the network
connection is down.
Crystal Reports checks to see if the UNC pathname exists, before it checks to see if the user wants to re-import the
subreport. This causes an uncecessary delay in opening the report.
New Behavior:
The order of operations when opening a report is reversed: the new algorithm checks the pathname after the user
chooses to re-import.

-------------------

I have some reports with subreports which were imported from a server that no longer exists.

I installed the latest CR dll's and now it's back to normal.

Best regards,
TheDaoka|||TheDaoka -

Thanks for the information! Don't know why I never came across that in my search, but that sounds exactly like the problem I was having.

Glad you found it! Thanks!

crashing excel when printing exported RS report

We are having a problem with some reports that get exported to excel and then
trying to print. we don't get this with all reports just some.
Here is what happens:
The report generates fine in RS. We then export to excel. We tell excel to
print and then get a 'Memory can't be read' error and excel crashes.
Whenever we want to just print a report as is, we export to PDF and print
that way. But many times the report is used in excel for further analisys
with other data. I have tried printing without touching the report in excel
and still get the error. So I know it is not something we added.
Because we are only getting this error with some reports and not all, I am
guessing that there must be something that was(n't) added to the report in RS
that would cause this.
Did I make enough sense to explain my issue?We are having the same problem with a couple of reports that were recently
modified. The modifications included adding a couple of additonal parameters
and then displaying the parameter values in the report footer. We already had
the report parameters displaying in the footer with no problems.
Our users are running Office 97 on WIndows NT worksatations. Our
deveoplment environment is running Windows XP with Office 2003 and the report
printing problem cannot be reproduced in the development environment.
Anyone had any luck with fixing this problem?
Ray
"David" wrote:
> We are having a problem with some reports that get exported to excel and then
> trying to print. we don't get this with all reports just some.
> Here is what happens:
> The report generates fine in RS. We then export to excel. We tell excel to
> print and then get a 'Memory can't be read' error and excel crashes.
> Whenever we want to just print a report as is, we export to PDF and print
> that way. But many times the report is used in excel for further analisys
> with other data. I have tried printing without touching the report in excel
> and still get the error. So I know it is not something we added.
> Because we are only getting this error with some reports and not all, I am
> guessing that there must be something that was(n't) added to the report in RS
> that would cause this.
> Did I make enough sense to explain my issue?
>
>|||We have finally solved this issue.
Our poblem was solved by reducing the amount of information in the report
footer. We display the users input parameter values in the footer to allow
them to print the parameters used when rendering the report. In our case we
had increased the number of parameters in the report and hence displayed in
the footer from 6 to 8. This caused Excel to crash when attempting to print
the export file. We have since reduced the parameters in the footer to 6
again and now the report prints in Excel.
Hope this may help you in finding the soucre of you printing problems.
"David" wrote:
> We are having a problem with some reports that get exported to excel and then
> trying to print. we don't get this with all reports just some.
> Here is what happens:
> The report generates fine in RS. We then export to excel. We tell excel to
> print and then get a 'Memory can't be read' error and excel crashes.
> Whenever we want to just print a report as is, we export to PDF and print
> that way. But many times the report is used in excel for further analisys
> with other data. I have tried printing without touching the report in excel
> and still get the error. So I know it is not something we added.
> Because we are only getting this error with some reports and not all, I am
> guessing that there must be something that was(n't) added to the report in RS
> that would cause this.
> Did I make enough sense to explain my issue?
>
>

CR9 - Link String field to Number Field

Hey,

I have two tables used within a report one therough btrieve and the other odbc.

Within each table there is a field called {emp.no}. However, one field is located within a Jobshop database and is a string field and the other is located within a TimeLOG database and is a number field.

Is there anyway of linking these fieds within crystal? I dont belive its possible with the Database Expert. But maybe elsewhere?

The report feeds through from the Jobshop (string) field and I need to match records within the TimeLOG (number) database to those within Jobshop based on emp.no and a date field.

Any help much appreciated.

Regards

RobSee the help on the ToText and ToNumber functions.
You should be able to use these in the Record Selection formula.

CR8.5 COM documentation

Hi

I'm a VB and CR newbie.

I have been looking for some documentation about which methods I can use on a crystal report object. I have found at lot of examples using google but almost none of them shows more than just creating the object and open the report.

I would like to send a SQL string to the report and execute it.

I'm using VB5

Where can I find the documentation about this?

cheers
Henryjust do an online search for documentation. i do have it, bt its 5.x MB, so i dont think it'll upload here...i cant remember the exact url i found it...
http://www.businessobjects.com
try that...
Also, try the samples in crystal. it should be in ur Crystal installed folder-->
E:\Crystal\Samples\En\Code\Visual Basic
tons of support!
(I can show u how slove ur prob, bt i only know in vc++)

CR8.5 and VB6 - I dont want it to create the form!

Every time I add a new Crystal Report to my VB6 project it used to ask if I wanted to add a form with the viewer control on it automatically (it also asked something else, but I can't remember what). I got sick of hitting "No" then "OK" so I checked the "don't ask me this question again" style box.

Now, every time I add a report it also adds a form to my project with the viewer control. I don't want it to do this, as it's annoying removing the useless form and it is screwing with my source control. And it does it even though when i checked the "don't ask me... " i told it not to create the form.

So I've checked all the settings I can find and I can't find anything to stop it happening. Does anyone have a quick fix to this before I go trawling through the registry to find a solution?update - i trawled the registry, found some likely candidates, but none of them worked. It's real frustrating, so any help will be appreciated, but I can live with it (I've lived with worse)