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haansi
haansi

Reputation: 5750

crystal reports templates?

Asp.net provide master pages, similarly in Winforms we concept of visual inharitence. Same parent-child concept is in many difference technolgoes.

Kindly guide me how I can make a template or parent report and inharit other reports from this layout.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1563

Answers (1)

Emanuele Greco
Emanuele Greco

Reputation: 12731

Templating is not provided from Crystal Reports, actually.

You can, instead, use some workaraunds to help report design:

  1. Create reports called Header.rpt and Footer.rpt and import them as Sub-reports in Page Header and Page Footer** [if you change Header.rpt you have to open each report and click re-import sub report to update it]
  2. After editing, you can save a chart as a template so, when you create a new one, you can use same configuration for style, colors, etc
  3. Keep an empty report somewhere with title, style, fonts, margins already set and use it as a template for new reports (instead of starting from a real empty one)
  4. Save client's logo into DB so (you can change it dynamically at runtime) and use it in header-footer-anywhere

Upvotes: 6

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