Interactive charts using crystal reports

[Former Member]

Hello there,

I am creating charts using crystal reports. Is it possible to do interactive charts? For example, I have a pie chart and if I click on any one of the pie, I would like to open another chart based on the pie value.

Please advise!

[DellSC · Accepted solution]

Unfortunately, Crystal does not have that capability natively. If you have Crystal Dashboard Design (formerly Xcelsius), you can embed the visualization in a report and use the report to provide the data to the visualization (Crystal 2008 and newer). However, Xcelsius renders its visualizations in Flash, which is being deprecated on 12/31/2020.

If you want to see how to do this, I have a conference presentation I did on the topic toward the bottom of the page here: http://www.dellstinnett.com/sample_code.html. There are also links to the .rpt and .xlf files and a backup of the SQL Server Express database that I used available on that page.

-Dell