Bursting Reports

[brishanny]

I am using crystal reports 9 developers and programming with Visual Studio 2002. I have been testing Ido's Visual Cut for bursting and exporting reports into a specified directory through the dynamic capabilites of Visual Cut.

I would like to know if bursting reports in Crystal is code that can be written by the average programmer using .NET? I can't find any information. Can someone give me an idea how to get the program to burst?

The only reason I would rather write my own program over using Visual Cut is that I can have more control over what I want to do. For example, there is a program I wrote that prints labels out. I need to burt each group header, check the order number against the database to find out how many labels should be pritned, then print the labels. Also, I want this to be on my menu screen of a VB.NET aplication I created instead of having to load visual cut on everyones local machine.

 

[synapsevampire]

Have you contacted Ido? He may be able to help you. I suspect that writing this will be a good deal more expensive than integrating his tool with your environment (perhaps calling his program from yours).

-k

 

[PauloMongo]

brishanny,

did you ever find a solution to your problem, because i have the exact same problem

 

[brishanny]

Paul,

I have not found a solution for writing my own bursting function but Visual Cut is an excellent piece of software at a great value.

I worked with Ido on the issue in the thread you responded to and he updated his software to help me dynamically create the number of copies.

I also found ways around a couple issues I had awhile back by writing code with VB.NET. If you want to explain your issue I might be able to tell you if I have any ideas on writing custom code and using Visual Cut. If you are using .NET you might want to check out the system.process namespace. Since Visual Cut is ran from a command line arguments you can dynamically create your strings and process them one at a time.

Check out the website at

http://www.milletsoftware.com/

if you don't already have visual cut.

 

[Folkstone]

Hello all,

I have come across a problem when trying to create a report in crystal version 8.5.

I am using a string field {Disputes.Age_Category} which contains age dates within in. I need to extract the month and the year from this field and then group them into the following specified order:

<11/2004 (Debt previous to November - 90+ Days)
=11/2004 (Debt in 60 Days)
=12/2004 (Debt in 30 Days)

I have tried creating a specified group by having 30 Day category showing "between 01/12/2004 and 31/12/2004". It does not seem to be pulling the correct information.

Unsure where to go from here
Any idea
Folkstone

 

[kenhamady]

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