I have a application written in Visual Basic 6, with an access back end, with major reporting functions provided by Crystal Reports 6. This program is used by a number of clients that all until some weeks had XP as their operating system. Needless to say cr6 does not play well in win 8.1 environment and hence my desire to update to CR13. VB6 I am told is a dying if not already defunct but the truth is I like it and would like to continue to use it. My problem is that I cannot find any info on how to use CR13 in VB6.
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How to Install Crystal Report runtime. First of all, login in to your PC as Administrator and follow the below instructions. Choose the same version of crystal report runtime as of Crystal report for visual Studio and if your operating system is 32 bit or 64 bit, choose the version accordingly.
If it was just a matter of running a pre-defined report I guess that can be done, but it somewhat defeats me how to pass parameters and variables to the report. It seems a long way removed from CR6 but willing to give CR13 a good go in the hope of making it work, as I have nothing but praise for my comfortable (for 10 years) CR6 Any help very gratefully accepted with hat in hand. Tags:. sapcrystalreport.
Tutorial 13 Tutorial: Using Crystal Reports with VB The objective of this tutorial is to learn how to create and use from Visual Basic a Crystal Report:. Understand what Crystal Reports are and when to use them. How to create a Crystal Report based on an Access database. Preview or print a Crystal Report from a Visual Basic application. Introduction After creating a front-end to an Access 97 database in, it is likely that most applications of any complexity will need to use one or more reports to summarise or print the data.
Although an Access database can contain built in reports Visual Basic is not able to access them. Instead, an application called the Crystal Report Designer must be used to open the Access database (other database formats can also be handled), set the tables and fields the report will use, graphically design the layout of the report, and then save this report into a separate crystal report file. This crystal report file can then be accessed by a Visual Basic application by using the crystal report control.
Creating a Crystal Report. Start the crystal report designer by selecting Report Designer. from the Add-Ins pull-down menu in Visual Basic. Note: The first time crystal reports is run the application will ask for various user details, this only needs to be completed once. Once in crystal reports select New. from the File menu to start creating a new report. For those not experienced with crystal reports it is probably easiest to click on Custom and then select Custom Report (see screenshot below). The Custom Report should stay depressed once clicked; next click on the Data File icon further to the right. Drag the fields you wish to include in the report from the floating window into the Details line on the main window behind.
In the screenshot above the Author field has already been dragged into place. Repeat this process with some of the other fields. After all required fields are in place click the done button on the floating window. Many reports group related data together with headings or sub-totals. Taking the book database from the above example, it might be useful to sort all the book records by publisher.
To do this select Group Section. from the Insert menu. In the dialog box which appears select the PublisherName field and click on OK. This will add a new section to the report design layout (see below). The next step is to put a new field into this section to display the publisher names. To do this select Database Field. from the Insert menu and drag the PublisherName field from the floating window into the top section on the report design.
Once all the data fields have been included on the report the layout and format can be considered. To make the publisher names standout, select the field in the report design and then change its font style to bold and italic. By default the crystal report designer includes all column headings, but these can seem a bit redundant if the meaning of the data is obvious (which in this case it is). Thus, delete all text fields from the Page header section. So users will know what the report is for it is a good idea to give it a title.
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This can be done by selecting Text Field. from the Insert menu and entering a suitable title in the dialog box which pops up. Position this text field in the Title section of the report design and increase the font to a suitable size. After completing all the formatting you can check the report by clicking the Preview tab. If the resulting report seems a bit small, go to the Report menu and select Zoom. When you are happy the report is complete and well designed you can save it (see File menu). Important: By default crystal reports do not alter when the underlying data in the database changes (this is highly stupid!).
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To avoid this problem go to File/Options. and select the Reporting tab. On this tab make sure that the Refresh data on every print is checked. Using a Crystal Report from Visual Basic. If the crystal reports icon is not visible in the toolbox then it needs to be added. To do this select Components. from the Project pull-down menu in Visual Basic.
Select the crystal reports control icon from the toolbox and place it on a form in the usual way. This control, like the timer, will be a small square rectangle which is hidden at run-time. In the properties window set the ReportFileName to the file name of the crystal report (.rpt). After this set the Destination property to 0 - crypToWindow. It is advisable to display a new report on screen before sending it to the printer or a file. This property can be changed after the report has been checked and found to be OK.
To run the report add a button or pull-down menu entry and in its click event enter CrystalReport1.PrintReport. Distribution Note: The dynamic link library crpe.dll must be installed on any computer running crystal reports.
(Working with Access 97 Databases) (Multiple Document Interface).