I am using Crystal Reports in Visual Studio 2012. The programming language is C#.
In the report, there are some sections. In one of this, there are the headers of the data will be displayed in other section. I need to hide this headers if the data is an empty string. How can I do this?
Note: I don't want to hide entire section where there are the headers, because there are more information in this section. I need to hide ONLY the headers.
Thanks!
Edit: more details.
The design of the report is this (it is in spanish).
If the "Codigo" field is empty string (in "Section3(Detalles)"), the header "Codigo" (in bold, in GroupHeaderSection1) will be hided. The same for the other fields.
Right Click on the section (Header either Report Header or Page Header) and select "Section Expert.."
You will see Suppress (No- Drill-Down) check box under "common" tab and next to it a button . Click on it
There write a condition using the report field (which you gonna use to determine whether to hide/un hide section)
i.e if(Length({reportfield})=0)then true
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I have a crystal report in VS19 where I want to move my entire report footer to the last page if the report have multiple pages. Currently what is happening is, if my report have multiple pages, report footer will appear in the 1st page itself and accommodate as much of controls it can there and move the rest of the section to the last page. I have tried a lot of things such as adding formula to suppress the report footer if
pagenumber <> totalpagecount
then tried adding new page before with the same above formula. but nothing was working properly. If i applied new page like this it will forcefully make the reports 2 paged which is actually not needed and behave according to the formula. What I exactly needed is , if the detail section has more data such that it will make the report overflowing to make it 2 paged, then only the entire Report Footer should appear in 2nd page/last page. Could anybody help me. Thanks in advance.
In Section Expert for report footer section, turn on the Keep Together checkbox.
Did anyone found the solution to this problem?? Subreport inside Details section gets repeated.
Is there a way to display subreport only once? I don't want to put it in header.
Please help guys,.
The easiest way is to not put the subreport in the details section. You can create a new section that has no automatic iteration in it and just use that. Or you could put it in the report header or footer.
So I have attached a picture of my app below. What I have is a Winforms C# app where the user can generate a barcode. He enters the parameters on the left, clicks Generate, and the Crystal Report is shown on the right with the barcode in a 4x12 format. I created the report template manually, i.e added Blob fields on the report in the positions I wanted through trial and error, and when the user clicks generate, it simply passes the image to the report.
I plan on adding a facility where the user can choose which slots on the report to actually generate an image, because perhaps he doesn't want to print 48 barcodes at a time. So maybe a checkboxes or something where the user will determine at runtime how the report will generate.
So my question is, what is the best way to do this? I was thinking of passing a list of the desired slots to the report as a parameter, and hiding or suppressing the fields depending on the list, but I don't know how to do this. My Crystal reports knowledge isn't the greatest. I only found ways to suppress data in cases of duplicate data, but I have a somewhat unique case where there isn't much info out there.
to suppress an item using some condition I do it as follow:
select the item (that could be suppressed based on the condition)
right click on the item
select "Format Field" or "Format Text"
in the tab menu select "Common"
in the common tab look for Suppress (it is a checkbox) and check it the click on the button that have a x+2 and a pencil,
write your condition
you may do it the other way around (unchecked textbox and condition to hide)
an example of mine: (?official is a parameter I sent)
IF {?Official} = true THEN
true
ELSE
false
As I understood, by default, the language of report viewer is set by "CultureInfo.InstalledUICulture" (not that simple). That means, if my computer is from Brazil, then it will format numbers with Brazil's culture. Altought my data may be formatted with United States' culture, so my report viewer display things incorrectly. I guess one solution to solve it, is by changing the language of the report viewer as the same of my CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture.
How can I achieve that in the simplest way, please?
In the report properties set the Language property as:
=System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture.ToString()
Or to whatever you need. I'm using a report parameter for example. The value must resolve to a string.
You can access the report properties via the properties window, and then from the top list select "Report". Or you could simply click in the gray area of the report, and press F4.
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There are two (+1) separate things here:
The language of the controls, tooltips, etc. inside the ReportViewer control. This depends on the System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture.
The number, date, currency, etc. formats within the report. These are controlled by changing the Language property of the rdlc file in use.
The actual content of the report which is controlled via your DataSource(s). This one is pretty obvious, but I mentioned it for sake of completeness.
I'm trying unsuccessfully to change the value of a word Checkbox (from developer tab) via automation in C#. I've tried different ways but the only one I always find when I search on internet is :
find the name of the checkbox by clicking on properties of the checkbox when you are in developer mode
object oCheckbox = "Checkbox_name"
document_name.FormFields.get_Item(ref oCheckbox).CheckBox.Value = true/false;
But whenever I execute the code I get the following error (the request member of the collection does not exist) who means that there's no checkbox named "Checkbox_name" in my document if I understand correctly.
I also tried to Bookmark the checkbox with the same name and to execute :
document_name.BookMarks.get_Item(ref oCheckbox).CheckBox.Value but it doesn't work too...
If you inserted a checkbox by clicking on the checkbox shown in the developer tab, then I assume you're using Word 2007 or later.
And, if that's the case, then what you inserted was not a form field, but a content control. Therefore if you enter the following into the immediate window in the VBA editor:
?ActiveDocument.Content.FormFields.Count
...it will print "0". Whereas if you try:
?ActiveDocument.Content.ContentControls.Count
...it should print some number greater than zero, depending on how many of these you inserted.
To insert an old-style form-field checkbox, click the folder-with-tools icon right next to the checkbox icon - this drops down more types of controls, including "Legacy Forms" and "ActiveX Controls". There is a checkbox in each group, but it's the first group ("Legacy Forms") that will create the checkbox that shows up in the FormFields collection.
I would suggest using the content control if possible, since the old-style form fields may not be supported forever.