unselectable Subreport (User should just read it)

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Hi friends,

Our reports are developed in Crystal Xi, each report has sub reports, due to complexity of data being displayed.

The requirement is: when user views the report in web browser, a hand symbol appears when s/he hoovers the mouse on the sub-report section of the report, and clicking on it opens the sub-report. I just want to suppress this feature. User should not be aware of the sub-reports etc, the report should look like one single report without hyperlinked sub-reports, even if the user hoovers the mouse pointer over the sub-report, he should not get hand symbol (the sub-report should not open on clicking too).

I tried by placing a empty text box over the sub-report, that works fine, but when data in sub-report is more than one page then it does not work, as on second page the user gets the same hyperlink look and clicking on the sub-report opens the sub-report.

Did any one solve this, I am sure you might have got this requirement and might have some solution to it.

Thank you
Arun

Arun8006 (BOB member since 2006-12-22)

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there is no solution to this issue.

if you know how big the subreport will be, you can use the solution you used.

but if the subreport can grow, then there is no way of preventing the “hand” and being able to drill down to the subreport.

jesibl (BOB member since 2008-11-18)

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I need this exact same thing. The familiar hand directs users to click it which brings up the “contents” explorer and by opening the subreport loses the headers of the master report! Very annoying!

djayam (BOB member since 2009-01-29)