Openning a Crystal Report in Design mode from code.

[a2ross]

I know there are Crystal reports forums but as this requires VB knowledge as well, so I've put it here as well as the there.

Can this be done and ,if so, how?

I need to degug a report that is not recieving some of the data being sent from a Data Object in a VB app. I can't do it through Crystal reports as the report won't access the data unless it is opened by the app.

Urgent, I'm running out of options.

 

[DjangMan]

I think you need to have Crystal 8.5 do to this. Version 8.5, from what I can see, has a Report Designer object which might help you.

 

[a2ross]

I finally sorted it. If the report was originally auto created from a CrystalReports object (which this one was) there is nothting that can be done to modify the data links. (That's straight from Crystal themselves)

I ended up creating queries in the database and tying the reports to them. I then adjusted the queries at run time using querydefs.

This worked fine and is only one possible solution.

Crystal 8.5 provides the capability to create reports within the VB app and access them from there. The reports are then compiled within the app and do not need to be sent separately when distributing.

The crystal web site is not bad for further info.