How to get the preview picture?

[mpegjunkie]

Hi there,

I have developed an application that shows and prints Crystal Reports. That works fine. The user can select reports, and then view or print it.
But it would be nice to show the user the preview picture of the report in advance (if saved, of course). Whenever he chooses a report file, I want to show him the preview picture.

Now, in the COM object I found only "Report.SavePreviewPicture" set to TRUE or FALSE. But where can I find the preview picture?

I would be glad if somebody had the answer to this demanding question.
Thank you in advance!

Yours mpegjunkie

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
IIRC, the preview image requires that the data be saved with the report - Not sure if it is needed just the first time it is created or if it needs to always have the data in order to show the image..I have never found it usefull due to its size
- some of our user interface pages ( custom code) have links to saved exports of 1 page of the data ( in HTML format or as Word Docs) so the user can see a useful sample of the output.






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[vidru]

Have a look at this thread for a way to get the preview picture without using Enterprise:

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1019249

-dave