How to add an image or static text in the header of EACH page of a cross-Tab report

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Post Author: rtutus
CA Forum: General
Hi, I use Crustal 11.0.
I have a cross Tab. I display the items on the left column and the months horizontally, the items are grouped by category field. The values are the sum of quantities are displayed for each month. Like this:
                         Items         Jan       Feb       March .....................Total
Category 1                       
                         Item11         val11     Val12      Val13                     Total values
                         Item12         val21     Val22      Val23                     Total values
                         Item13         val31     Val32      Val33                     Total values
Category 2                       
                         Item21         val11     Val12      Val13                     Total values
                         Item22         val21     Val22      Val23                     Total values
                         Item23         val31     Val32      Val33                     Total values
Category 3                       
                         Item31         val11     Val12      Val13                     Total values
                         Item32         val21     Val22      Val23                     Total values
                         Item33         val31     Val32      Val33                     Total values
The problem, I want to add a page header for each page of the report.
When Crystal reports first displays my cross-tab in the designer, CR displays the cross tab in the Report header section. I d like to add text or image for each page and not only at the begining of my Cross-Tab.
If I just add an image or text at the top of the report designer, which is my report header, I get the image or text only on the begining of the 1st page of my report but never in the other following pages.
If I try to work around the problem and move the cross Tab to a group section instead, and then put the Image in the group header, I get what I want, but the problem is that:
The columns header: Jan, February....December are displayed for each group of my report and not only in the beginning of the report. I get something like this:
                         Items         Jan       Feb       March .....................Total
Category 1                       
                         Item11         val11     Val12      Val13                     Total values
                         Item12         val21     Val22      Val23                     Total values
                         Item13         val31     Val32      Val33                     Total values
                         Items         Jan       Feb       March .....................Total
Category 2                       
                         Item21         val11     Val12      Val13                     Total values
                         Item22         val21     Val22      Val23                     Total values
                         Item23         val31     Val32      Val33                     Total values
                         Items         Jan       Feb       March .....................Total
Category 3                       
                         Item31         val11     Val12      Val13                     Total values
                         Item32         val21     Val22      Val23                     Total values
                         Item33         val31     Val32      Val33                     Total values
You see the months get duplicated. Any way, my real need is to add an image or text in the header of EACH page of a cross-Tab report.
Thanks a lot for your help.

Answer 1

Hi Divya,
you could do for example in the wdDoInit() of the view
wdContext.currentContextElement().setPicture("picture.gif");
Now you assign this context variable to the Tab using the Tab_header's imageSource-Property. When you click on its value column, you see a button with three dots on it. If you click on this button, you will get all context nodes and attributes for this View. Usable variables are clearly marked, you now choose the one named Picture or what ever name you prefer to use. But it must correspond to the one set in the wdDoInit.
I think setting a picture (not necessarily for the tab-page) is done in one of the excellent tutorials. If you are a newcomer I strongly recommend doing some of the tutorials.  I have learned tremendously from them.
Hope this helped
Harald