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Need to print the report in both landscape and portrait format

I'm currently working on a .net (c#) crystal report and I need to format and print the report in both landscape and portrait format, e.g course basic infomation in portrait format and course details in landscape format.

I will give more details:
I have a main report and 3 sub reports. Basically, I need the subreports to be in landscape format while my main report is in portrait.

Can anyone tell me how I can achieve that?

Thanks!

Regards,
Isabel

Ido Millet

This can't be done in Crystal. Subreports cannot have a different paper layout or paper source than the main report.

You need to split the report into different reports. Then print then manually or via a scheduler/report manager.

hth,
- Ido

Isabel19

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oh dear! but I need the parameters from main report......

there's really no other way?

Isabel

ebolek

i never tris it, doesnt sem like ossible but i will ook at the engine model to see if i can find a method

in the mean time, from the .code

you can set paper orientation

Crystalviewer1.papaerorienattion = landscape

Regards
Emre

Isabel19

ASKER

ok thanks!

GJParker

This definitely isn't possible using one single report. if you are using a c# front end application to generate the report you could possibly use code to generate the required parameters for multiple reports.

You can have multiple viewers on forms and set the Print event of the course basic report to print both basic and details reports.

HTH

Gary

sanjeev_karnik

Can you clarify further.
What parameters do you require from main report?

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frodoman

Isabel,

As both Ido and Gary have told you, you cannot have both portrait and landscape printing from the same report.

If you need parameters then use your application to call two different reports with the same parameters.

frodoman

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frodoman

Emre,

I haven't tried it myself so I won't say 100% that it won't work but in a previous thread someone had tried it and it wasn't working for them. Seems that only the first one is accepted.

frodoman

Isabel19

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Hi all,

thanks for your feedbacks, as I had a very tight deadline and is impossible to spend time doing experiments I have restored to print everything in landscape.

Rgds,
Isabel