Dear all,
Could you plse advice on the following:
I have form kind of customized template in wprd doc, users expecting the report in the same format.
Hence i took the template and embeded as an ole object however my question is can i place the report fields underneath the header of the ole worddoc?
Ex:i have a Name field in the form (ole object) and i dragged the namefield from the reexplorer into the template.
Instead me Replicating the entire form in the crystal repot using sections/boxes etc…?
Is there any disadvantages using the OLE embeded objects?
I don’t think you can do this with an OLE object that is a Word document. Also, if your document extends to multiple pages, you will definitely not be able to do this because Crystal will only render the first page of the document.
There are a couple of work-arounds available, though.
If this will only be 1 page per record, I believe you can put the Crystal format reference to fields - e.g. {MyTable.MyField} - in the text of the document and it will automatically fill in the fields.
Another thing I’ve done for filling in forms is import an image of the form into the report in the section where it needs to be and then place the appropriate fields on top of the image.
For either of these, you can only work with a single record. If your report has any table-like areas where you need to show multiple detail records you’ll need to recreate it in Crystal with the correct sections, etc.
Thank you… for the Input,…
Yh , For the details sections, I used the Subreports within the forms… i.e
Instead {MyTable.MyField} Isues… Subreport, This helped to show the details of multple records…
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