Disable drill-down to a sub-report but show the sub-report data on the main report

I agree with the .Net viewer you have no choice.  I believe this can be turned off inside of Crystal Enterprise but that's the only place I know of that it's possible.

frodoman

Good idea Jan.

We found an ugly workaround. We place an empty text control *over* the subreport, and set formulas for its layout to match those of the subreport. That essentially disables the drill-down because the user is unable to click on the subreport itself. It's ugly, but it works.

However, we'll try the pdf approach tomorrow. It's definitely worth a shot.

I'll keep you all posted.

shovavnik

Let me know if you need some help with the pdf approach - works great and easy to do.

Unfortunately, we cannot use the pdf solution as we need to let the user decide what to do with the report.

The user may want to email it, print it, or export it to any of a number of formats, so exporting to pdf will limit us severely.

Our solution, though relatively ugly, works.

I'm going to request to cancel this question, but I appreciate your advice!

shovavnik

shovavnik,

Please request that this question be PAQ'd and you get your points back.  This will refund the points to you but will still leave the question available for future reference.  Your workaround, while ugly, is a viable solution and may be beneficial for others to see in the future.

frodoman

Hello,

For future reference, it turns out that our solution is not a viable solution after all, since the dimensions of the controls do not support formulas, at least in the version of Crystal that we're using.

For now, unless we find a better solution, we'll either modify the workflow of the application and let the user choose the export before the report is produced and leave the drill-down functionality in there, or just ignore this issue.

In any case, I would like to have the question closed.

And I would also like to reward janmarini for the suggestion to export to pdf that gave us at least a partial solution. Can I reward for 100 points? Do I need to open a special question just for janmarini in order to do this like it used to work last year (when I participated more)?

Thanks a lot to all of you!

shovavnik

shovavnik,

Open a zero point question in Community Support and explain that you would like to reduce the points on this question (include a link here) to 100.  They will post here to make sure no one objects and then after the points are reduced you can simply Accept Jan's answer normally.

frodoman

shovavnik - I am glad that I was able to help out, I have faced this problem too.   I pretty much ended up with your solution at that time - offering options:   1 report for export to Excel (data-only, with no headers,etc.), another for viewing/printing and sometimes even a separate detail report to substantiate the summary.  No points are necessary - please save them for a rainy day.  Hopefully our discussion will help others facing a similar situation.

Jan