Chart Building Capacity of Crystal Report

[matt1ca]

I am thinking/deliberating to myself whether it is is wise to invest time trying to make crystal reports do charts
programmatically (or if it possible at all) or whether some other technology can handle the job better -- I am
really not too familiar with the "intestines" of CR (but I know it is industry standard and therefore must be a
really powerful stuff) so to speak. But right now I desire to get a bird's eyeview of Crystal Report's capacity
for such things --

The CR manual says -- if you can imagine a report you can probably create it with Crystal Reports. I have read the
Charting/Graphing help of CR but the impression that it is giving me is that charts are done interactively using a wizard
and not programmatically.

To make matters worse and my deliberation 'intensify' -- I have read in this forum, someone asking if the chart
wizard can work programmatically/(on the fly) -- I have noted that the response to the question does not really
assert CR as being powerful enough for it -- and suggested a component called graphs32.ocx. Please enlighten me
about CR and it creating programmatically charts and graphs?

Thank you so much for all the kind help,

Gratefully
Matt
matt_1ca@yahoo.com
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[kenhamady]

A crystal chart is created interactively like the report itself is created interactively. That is to say the first time.

After that it is refreshed and recalculated based on the dataset used in the report. This is automatic and requires no user intervention.

Since you can control most report settings from a programming language like VB, you have quite a bit of flexibility in changing the groupings and other factors that determine the chart's final output, but I don't believe you can "create" the chart or control the chart directly from the program.

i.e. I dont' think you can change a chart from pie to bar, based on a program call. You could, however have 2 charts and choose to display one or the other based on a program call. [sig]<p>Ken Hamady-

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