Common header across reports

Question

Hi,
We are using crystal reports. There are around 400 reports in our application. We want to use a common header across the reports. The main challenge that we are facing now is if I have a change for the header then I have to open all the 400 reports make the change and then re-deploy them. Is there any way that is possible in Crystal where I have a common header report and if I change at on place then all the reports should get modified automatically.
Regards,
Prudhvi

Answer 1

since the reports weren't built using this method or using repository objects, you either have extra work to do now (on all 400 reports) or you need to pay money to get a third party product as per Venkatesh's suggestion above and then do some work for that as well. another product you may wish to look into is Rpt Inspector but you'd have to verify with them as to whether or not this would work in an enterprise environment.
for the subreport re-import method you need to add the report to all 400 reports and then save those 400 reports back to the repository. as a test you may wish to try this out with a couple of (two) reports. then open the "header" report up from the enterprise system, make a change, and then when you open up the two reports that use the header report, you should see the changes in those two reports.
i mentioned repository objects above as that's another way of updating objects on multiple reports when you've got an enterprise system and those objects have been stored in the repository and then added to your reports when designing. please see here for more info on this...an older document but the methodology would still be the same.