number printed pages of a 1 page report

[kdied]

I have a 1 page report in Crystal X.
If I print this report 100 times, I want them to be numbered 1 through 100.
If I print 1000, I want them to be numbered 1-1000.
I have no idea how I can do this.
Anyone?
Thanks

 

[kenhamady]

Crystal can't do this by itself, but you could do this with a DLL. To be precise, it would be a count of how many times the report was refreshed, rather than printed. You would have to write a formula that reads a text file for the last number, and writes back the same number after adding 1 to it. There are several DLL's available for CR that will do this and one is free. This article compares them:

http://kenhamady.com/cru/comparisons/crystal-reports-ufl

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