Date Formatting in a Result Field: Crystal Reports 2008

I'm modifying a report at runtime in c# .Net using Crystal Reports 2008.
I'm having trouble modifying a date fields format. I have accessed the DateFieldFormat object, and modified the properties, but only the SystemDefaultType property seems to have any affect.
If the Date format is set in the Visual Report Designer I can see the details of the format in DateFieldObject, but editing these values doesn't have any affect on the report once displayed.
Here is a sample of the code i'm using:
public Form1()
     InitializeComponent();
     CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument reportDocument = new CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument();
     ISCDReportClientDocument reportClientDocument;
     // Load Report
     reportDocument.Load(@"C:\myReport.rpt");
     reportClientDocument = reportDocument.ReportClientDocument;
     // Access Field
     FieldObject fieldObject = (FieldObject)reportClientDocument.ReportDefinition.DetailArea.Sections[0].ReportObjects["DateField1"];
     // These work, if I want to use one of the default formats
     // fieldObject.FieldFormat.DateFormat.SystemDefaultType = CrDateSystemDefaultTypeEnum.crDateSystemDefaultTypeUseLongDate;
     // fieldObject.FieldFormat.DateFormat.SystemDefaultType = CrDateSystemDefaultTypeEnum.crDateSystemDefaultTypeUseShortDate;
     // I don't want to use one of the defaults.
     fieldObject.FieldFormat.DateFormat.SystemDefaultType = CrDateSystemDefaultTypeEnum.crDateSystemDefaultTypeNotUsingDefaults;
     // I want to change the order of the values
     fieldObject.FieldFormat.DateFormat.DateOrder = CrDateOrderEnum.crDateOrderDayMonthYear;
     // Display the report in the viewer
     crystalViewer.ReportSource = rpt.rcd.ReportSource;
I'm assuming I'm missing something about the object model here, but I can't find any good reference to it. Can someone help me out?
Thanks!

Hello,
I find using the Object Browser in .NET IDE is very useful. Or look for the Developers help file
The API you are using is not the one to use. Try this one:
public virtual CrystalDecisions.Shared.DayFormat DayFormat { set; get; }
Member of CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.DateFieldFormat
Thank you
Don

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Product Type: Full
Target environment: .NET 3.5 windows forms and asp.net application
Since a couple of days, i can no longer access the field explorer nor the report exlorer. Anything else seems to be working fine. I first thought these windows were somewhere hidden behind another window but as much as i searched, i didnt succed in finding them :-(. Our product has a valid licence and is registered, by the way.
My question is now, what do i have to do to get my field/report explorer again. Maybe, installing the latest service pack had an influence, but i cannot tell for sure.
Any help is appreciated
Thanks in advance

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We would like to use a Crystal Report (2008) Stacked Area Layer Cake chart to show the workload RPD's (Sum of Resources Per Day = Y value axis) and Data_Date of the study (M,Month of study date = X value axis, using fiscal year type cycle Oct - Sept).
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Is there a way to break this dataset down so that values and/or labels are visible, using the crystal report options available? To suppress multiple layers and show a single label per layer?
We tried using the Color Highlight to group and display them by group and condition. The labels and series data points are still over crowded.
We also need to overlay the chart with the Average FC Totals from an additional Crosstab report. Is there a way to overlay this over the 1st layer of the report?

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Hi,
Can we use Crystal Reports 2008 Designer to directly reports on SAP R\3 data without any additional Integration Kit for SAP?
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Please post this query to the Crystal Reports Design forum:
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