4 page form letter setup, best way

[Former Member]

Is the best way to set up a report that has 4 different pages to insert 4 detail sections. Page 1 would be Section 3 (details a), page 2 would be detail b, etc. We have no need for headers or footers. Then to get page 1 to page break at the end of the page set New Page After to true. We have experimented with this but we are getting blank pages before and after a page but not consistently for every page if that makes sense. The 4 pages will reference the one row of data from the data set to print name and address on first page and various other details on pages two thru four. Then start over again with page one for the next row in the database.

Is this the wrong way to set up a four page report?

Bruce

[former_member188030 · Accepted solution]

Hi Bruce,

If you are facing the issue while designing the report, I would suggest you to post the query at CR design space : http://scn.sap.com/community/crystal-reports

If you are facing the issue from a .NET application please provide below info.

- Does the report work from CR designer?

- What version of Visual Studio you are using?

- What version of CRystal Reports are you using?

- Is it a win or web app?

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[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Sorry, I forgot the environment:

Visual Studio 2013 Update 1 with Crystal Reports for VS 2013 installed and running on Windows Server 2008 R2 Data Center Edition. The winform did display all pages plus blank pages in preview mode in the designer in the Visual Studio IDE. We set up a section using a text object as a container and expanded the text object to fill most of the 8.5 X 11 page size leaving some room around the object for about a .5 inch margin and for an image at the top. We added more test boxes and data fields into that text object. I think we got this idea from documentation we found on the web. We also added the image on page 1 in front of the text object container in that first detail section (details a) that we want to be page 1. We still got an extra page after page 1.

We then set the Fit Section option on by right clicking in the (details a) band and for the other detail bands and now it is rendering correctly in the viewer. We were able to print it to the printer.

Are we way out in left field or are we on the right path?

[former_member11696 · Accepted solution]

Hi Bruce,

That is one way of doing it, another way is when designing the report in the detail section you can check on the Format with Multiple columns:

And copy the fields into each area, CR will return/display the data into each field in each area.

Not sure if the Embedded Report Designer in VS has this ability. If not use what you are doing or purchase a full version of CR Designer 2011 or 2013 and design your report with it.

Embedded Report Designer in VS does not have the full functionality or all feature/functions.

Don

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks Don,

We will stick with the way we are doing it. Seems to be working OK so far.

Is there a document that shows the difference in functionality beween Embedded Report Designer in VS 2013 and full purchase version of CR Designer 2013?

[former_member188030 · Accepted solution]

See this.

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/60df293e-41e8-2e10-9293-fa4beeb40...

CR for VS 2010 is CR for VS 2013 and CR 2011 is almost the same as CR 2013 full version.

-Bhushan