Export to text - formatting

Question

Post Author: Ralphred
CA Forum: .NET
Im trying to export a report to a .txt from within a vs2005 program, using CRXIr2. I have been able to export to the text file through code since the option to export to text isn't available for some reason when in vs2005. The problem I have now is that when I try to change the Characters Per Inch Textformatting option they do not change and the report gets exported with the default of 12 characters per inch, and some of my data is cut off.
Here is the code that I am using and would really appreciate if anyone knows a way around this and can help out.
Thanks
Public Sub ExportToText(ByVal ReportName As CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument, ByVal ParamName() As String, ByVal ParamValues() As String)
Dim MyReportDocument As CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument = ReportName
Dim Field As CrystalDecisions.Shared.ParameterValues
Dim Value As CrystalDecisions.Shared.ParameterDiscreteValue
Try
If Not ParamName Is Nothing Then
For i As Integer = 0 To ParamName.Length - 1
Field = New CrystalDecisions.Shared.ParameterValues
Value = New CrystalDecisions.Shared.ParameterDiscreteValue
Value.Value = ParamValues(i)
Field.Add(Value)
MyReportDocument.DataDefinition.ParameterFields(ParamName(i)).ApplyCurrentValues(Field)
Next
End If
Dim exportOpts As New ExportOptions
Dim diskOpts As DiskFileDestinationOptions
diskOpts = ExportOptions.CreateDiskFileDestinationOptions()
CrystalDecisions.Shared.ExportOptions.CreateTextFormatOptions.CharactersPerInch = 16
exportOpts.ExportFormatType = ExportFormatType.Text
exportOpts.ExportDestinationType = ExportDestinationType.DiskFile
diskOpts.DiskFileName = "c:\exporttotext.txt"
exportOpts.ExportDestinationOptions = diskOpts
'**************************************** Here is where I set and nothing happens
ExportOptions.CreateTextFormatOptions.CharactersPerInch = 16
MyReportDocument.Export(exportOpts)
Catch ex As Exception
MsgBox(ex.Message, MsgBoxStyle.OkOnly, "Print Report")
Finally
MyReportDocument.Close()
MyReportDocument.Dispose()
End Try
End Sub

Answer 1

Yes. Use character styles, and map XML tags to the styles. It's the same process as for paragraph styles.