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Passing Parameters from VB to Crystal Reports

Asked by: JohnJMA

Hello,
I have been reading a lot on passing parameters from a VB app to a Crystal Report through this forum.  I have tried many of the suggestions but still seem to have a lot of errors and still cannot get the report to work correctly.  I created a datagridview on one form and when the users clicks a button a crystal report is displayed.  During the button click I cna retrieve the record id but I cannot get it inot crystal repots to run the report.  I have a second form with the CrystalReportViewer on it and a CrystalReport.rpt that was created in Crystal Report 2008.  I am trying to pass the parameters becasue the Crystal Report calls a MS SQL stored procedure to acquire the necessary data.  I also have a subreport embedded in the report.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
John

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2009-08-16 at 11:10:04ID24656533
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Answers

 

by: LuhanaPosted on 2009-08-16 at 13:15:26ID: 25110289

'make a module and write code or copy this

Public cr As New CRAXDRT.Application
Public rpt As CRAXDRT.Report

Sub OpenReportFile(FileName As String)
rptFile = FileName
fn= App.Path & "\Reports\" & rptFile & ".RPT"
Set rpt = cr.OpenReport(fn, 1)
rpt.DiscardSavedData
'rpt.GroupSelectionFormula = ""
'rpt.RecordSelectionFormula = ""
End Sub

 
Sub showReport()
 
For i = 1 To rpt.Database.Tables.Count
   'cr.LogOnServer
On Error Resume Next
rpt.Database.Tables(i).SetTableLocation App.Path & "\dbname.mdb", rpt.Database.Tables(i).Name, ""
   
'rpt.Database.AddOLEDBSource objConn, rpt.Database.Tables(i).Name
Next
'rpt.ReportTitle = ""
With frmReportsView.creport
.EnableAnimationCtrl = True
.EnableCloseButton = True
.EnableExportButton = True
.EnableNavigationControls = True
.EnableProgressControl = True
.EnableZoomControl = True

Do While .IsBusy              'ZOOM METHOD DOES NOT WORK WHILE
       DoEvents                          'REPORT IS LOADING, SO WE MUST PAUSE
Loop
   
.Zoom 1200
.ReportSource = rpt
.EnableRefreshButton = True
.ViewReport
End With
'frmReportsView.Caption = Reports.Text
frmReportsView.Show
'clean up
Set rtp = Nothing
Set cr = Nothing
End Sub


Sub setReportMultiRecords(parmName As String, parmSourceSQL As String, fldName As String, rptFile As String)
 

txt = App.Path & "\Reports\" & rptFile & ".RPT"
Set rpt = cr.OpenReport(txt, 1)

rpt.DiscardSavedData
'parm = Client_ID
Do Until rpt.ParameterFields.GetItemByName(parmName).NumberOfDefaultValues = 0
rpt.ParameterFields.GetItemByName(parmName).DeleteNthDefaultValue (1)
Loop
'Delete all the original parameter values from the parameter picklist.
'If you want to keep the orginal parameter values in the parameter picklist, comment out this loop.
Dim adoRs As New ADODB.Recordset
'Set adoRs.DataSource = objConn
Call adoRs.Open(parmSourceSQL, objConnection, adOpenDynamic, adLockBatchOptimistic)
'Create an ADO recordset that selects all fields from the Customer table.
adoRs.MoveFirst
'Move to the first record so you don't miss any records in the loop
Do Until adoRs.EOF = True
'Only loop until the end of the recordset
rpt.ParameterFields(2).AddDefaultValue adoRs.Fields(fldName).Value
'Add each value of the Customer ID field in our recordset to the parameters DEFAULT list
adoRs.MoveNext
'Move to the Next Record in our field
Loop
End Sub

 

by: JohnJMAPosted on 2009-08-16 at 16:56:58ID: 25110957

Luhana, thanks for the help.  I did take your suggestion and past it into a new module but I get a lot of errors on some of the code like rptName and fn.  I did not think it would take that much work jsut to pass a couple of parameters from a VB mdoule to a Crystal Report.

John

 

by: mlmccPosted on 2009-08-16 at 21:36:36ID: 25111640

The method in the above comment will not work with CR 2008.  CR2008 dropped all support for the COM methods.  The CRAXDRT method is the COM method of calling a report.

I haven't seen any samples of using CR2008 with VB.Net.

mlmcc

 

by: mlmccPosted on 2009-08-16 at 21:37:56ID: 25111643

One way to do it is to called the stored procedure from the VB application to create a VB dataset then pass the dataset to the report

http://www.emoreau.com/Entries/Articles/2006/09/Feeding-Crystal-Reports-from-your-application.aspx

mlmcc

 

by: LuhanaPosted on 2009-08-17 at 10:13:17ID: 25116318

my code is for VB 6.0
fn or rptfile name is filename. in crystal report I use to save it in a folder and open it by this way.

 

by: JohnJMAPosted on 2009-08-19 at 12:09:19ID: 31616306

Thanks alot for the help.  I was able to piece things together enough ways to get it to work.  I am not creating the report in VB.NET I am creating it in Crystal Reports and then choosing the report in a VB form that has the CrystalReportViewer added to the form.  This way I use Crystal and MS Sql to create the report and just use VB to display it.  Though creating a dataset in VB and using Crystal inside of VB may be eaiser but I have a number of reports that are shared between applicaitons.  Thanks for all the help.

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