Win Explorer Preview pane - how to preview *.rpt (from Crystal Report)
Using Win 7 Enterprise and Crystal Report.
Crystal Reports are defined through an addon to MS Visual Studio
When generating a report it creates files with the extension .rpt
In File Explorer i can double click on it and MS Visual Studio kicks off an presents me the report.
So far so good, but
I would like to see a preview of the report in the normal file explorer
What should the association in registry be ?? PerceivedType = ?
For a normal text file with just a funny extension it would say PerceivedType=text
Thanks for any suggestions
Crystal Reports are defined through an addon to MS Visual Studio
When generating a report it creates files with the extension .rpt
In File Explorer i can double click on it and MS Visual Studio kicks off an presents me the report.
So far so good, but
I would like to see a preview of the report in the normal file explorer
What should the association in registry be ?? PerceivedType = ?
For a normal text file with just a funny extension it would say PerceivedType=text
Thanks for any suggestions
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OK, thanks for sharing some light over the issue.
The thumbnail pic is often not sufficient. Do i understand you correctly in that this is basically not possible for Crystal reports ?
Are the previewers for text-files, pdf's, office documents (where you can see basically everything) beyond normal preview functionality ?
The thumbnail pic is often not sufficient. Do i understand you correctly in that this is basically not possible for Crystal reports ?
Are the previewers for text-files, pdf's, office documents (where you can see basically everything) beyond normal preview functionality ?
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Thx !
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Crystal Reports is a business intelligence application from SAP SE. It is used to graphically design data connections and report layouts from a wide range of data sources including Excel spreadsheets, Oracle, SQL Server databases and Access databases, BusinessObjects Enterprise business views, and local file-system information. Report designers can place fields from these sources on the report design surface, and can also deploy them in custom formulas (using either BASIC or Crystal's own syntax), which are then placed on the design surface. Crystal Reports also supports subreports, graphing, and a limited amount of GIS functionality.
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It is available when browsing for a report inside Crystal, BOE, etc.
If you build your own report browser, you can use the DSOFile DLL to gain access to the thumbnail image.