Integrating Crystal Reports and VB

[catalina36]

I’m a newbie to both VB6 and Crystal Reports but I need to understand how these two tools can be used together. What I’m looking for is an simple overview describing how to integrate reports created in Crystal Reports into a VB application. Can anybody provide me with this information or point me to an appropriate source?

TIA

 

[swilliams]

1. in VB, go to 'Project' / 'Components' and check the box for 'Crystal Report Control' - click OK
2. in code or at design time, set the 'ReportFileName' property of the control to a previously created and saved report - use the reports full path if it is not in your application folder - for a report that is created based on a query in a database.
3. set the action property to 1 (CrystalControl1.Action = 1) to view the report.

To extend this, before you set the action property to 1, change the query that the report is based on in VB code, so that your report does not report on the same data each time.