ComboBox control for Crystal Reports

Question

<p>Does anyone know if there are combobox style controls that can be used in crystal reports? We&#39;re using Business Objects XI R2 and Crystal Reports Developer XI to create the reports. Reports are delivered via Infoview.</p><p>The reports we&#39;re creating in Crystal has account number as an input parameter/prompt for the report. Some of our releationships have few hundreds to 1000 accounts. So the usability of a normal HTML SELECT control degrades pretty fast. A combobox would allow the user to type in partial names and scroll to that particular value. E.g.: The search on Google Suggest <a href="http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en">http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en</a></p><p>Does  WebElements have any control that can be used? Or are there 3rd party controls that are similar?</p><p>Thanks</p>

Answer 1

Hi,
I am looking for a Crystal Add-In to display a string that comes into my report as an array. I am using the Crystal JOIN function to get the elements, separate them by a comma and display them in a text object. This has worked well until I started working on a new report that returns many medication names as members of the array. Displaying them in the text box with "Can Grom" Checked has become quite messy, as this text box is in the Report Header section.
What I would like to do is display them as a ComboBox (or dropdown, if that is the same thing) with the first medication showing (say Aspirin) and then the user can click on the drop down and see the rest of the medications in the array (Tylenol, etc.)
This is display only data.
It seems like the Crystal Report Webelements might do the trick. I have some questions:
1 - Even though the link says you can incorporate web web controls onto your Crystal Report will this be visible from Crystal itself? The reason I ask is that we use a custom Report Viewer that basically renders on a web page what Crystal displays
2 - Do WebElements contain the ComboBox I am looking for?
Thanks,
Dick Rosenberg