Mohammad Daoud wrestles with a Crystal Reports problem where the Sub Report did not show up on client machine.
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Showing posts with label Crystal Reports. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crystal Reports. Show all posts
21 July 2010
Renaming tables in Crystal Reports
Victoria Yudin brings reporting tips on renaming tables in Crystal Reports.
30 March 2010
Checkboxes in Crystal Reports
Victoria Yudin is back with a terrific new post looking at how to create Checkboxes in Crystal Reports and using 1099 verification as an example.
29 July 2008
Crystal Reports from Within Dynamics GP
Flexible Solutions, home of fellow MVP Victoria Yudin, has a new solution out for accessing Crystal Reports from within GP. I have to say that the interface and options shown on the demo video look great. The product includes parameter handling and mapping, the ability to tie a report to the printer icon on a window and report grouping. If you use Crystal make sure you give the demo a look.
06 February 2008
Crystal Reports vs. SQL Server Reporting Services
DevX.com has a nice article comparing Crystal Reports and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). The article contain a little code but don't worry, you'll get it even if you are not a developer. The point of the article is to compare the two, presenting the differences without lobbying for or the other.
I'm quickly becoming a fan of SSRS so I don't mind lobbying. While I've been a fan of Crystal Reports in the past, the ever growing cost of using and maintaining Crystal and the regular crashes while writing reports (at least through version 9) finally drew me away. At Transit TV we didn't have a single Crystal Report. On the finance side it was GP reports, Smartlists, FRx and if we needed something really crazy we used SQL & Exchange or Excel with a Database Query.
I have been surprised at the differences in actually using both products. I can't explain it yet but they are built with enough fundamental differences that if you learn one, you be frustrated for a while as you learn the other.
I'm quickly becoming a fan of SSRS so I don't mind lobbying. While I've been a fan of Crystal Reports in the past, the ever growing cost of using and maintaining Crystal and the regular crashes while writing reports (at least through version 9) finally drew me away. At Transit TV we didn't have a single Crystal Report. On the finance side it was GP reports, Smartlists, FRx and if we needed something really crazy we used SQL & Exchange or Excel with a Database Query.
I have been surprised at the differences in actually using both products. I can't explain it yet but they are built with enough fundamental differences that if you learn one, you be frustrated for a while as you learn the other.
10 October 2007
Shade Rows in Crystal Reports
Steve Gray of 4Penny.net has posted a how to for shading rows in a Crystal Report. His example shades every third row gray. It's straight forward enough that you could easily modify it to every other row and change the color to suite your preference. This makes reports a lot easier to follow. I'm not going to give away the surprise, you'll have to visit Steve to see how.
I know that some of you still secretly long for a return to green bar paper. This is your chance to visit that look on others.
As a freebie, you can also easily do this in Excel for that GP Smartlist you've exported with Conditional Formatting.
The formula is:
=MOD(ROW(),2)=0
and you can find out more from John Walkenbach's monster Excel site.
The future's so bright we gotta wear shades.
I know that some of you still secretly long for a return to green bar paper. This is your chance to visit that look on others.
As a freebie, you can also easily do this in Excel for that GP Smartlist you've exported with Conditional Formatting.
The formula is:
=MOD(ROW(),2)=0
and you can find out more from John Walkenbach's monster Excel site.
The future's so bright we gotta wear shades.
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