Parameter dialog

im working on a vb.net app in VS.net2005 with crystal reports XI. i would like to disable the parameter dialog if at all possible? if not i would like to be able to get the parameter dynamic values added in the report to show in the dialog..?

Hi,
The supported version of crystal reports supported with VS 2005 are
1. CR for VS 2005 i.e bundled version (CR 10.2)
2.CR Xi R2 (CR 11.5)
3.CR 2008 (CR 12)
CR XI (CR 11) is not supported with vs 2005.
You set the parameter values for the report throgh code so that it will not prompt you for entering the parameters.
You can get the samples for setting the parameter thorugh code [here|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/samples].
Thanks,
Prasad Kanchan

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How to disabled the input parameter dialog box in crystal reports 9

Post Author: Murtaza
CA Forum: General
Hi friends,I have got stuck with a weird problem. In my
crystal report, I have set up some input parameters. I am setting
values for these parameters somewhere inside code. But I don't
want to show the default input parameter dialog box. Under any case,
user should not see the ugly parameter dialog box that crystal
presents. Please suggest me how I can achieve
this. I cannot do this through code, because our environment does
not allow that. I have to do this in crystal reports viewer and
by setting some property of the crystal report object. But everything
must be done on UI, not through code. So, the solution should not be the following.
// step before step 1
// **** the line needs to refer to the report and be set before setting
ReportSource in the viewer to myReport
myReport.EnableParameterPrompting = False
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Murtaza

Post Author: sleahcim
CA Forum: General
Hi Murtaza,
Unfortunately, I am not aware of any method to suppress the prompt for the input parameters, but still use them. It is truly a design-related issue for the report. The reason that the prompt appears is because the parameter it is prompting for is used in the report; in particular either the Group or Record Selection, or referenced in another formula.
The only way I can think of to not show the prompt, is to not use the parameter in the report. You did mention that you are setting the value of the parameter inside of the report -- are you doing this through using a formula? Perhaps you can just remove the parameter and only use the formula that you are setting the default values with.
-Michael

Supressing Parameter dialog box on Refresh Report

After some tinkering, I've figured out how to get a parameter passed from a VB.NET form to a Crystal Report:
Dim paramFields As New CrystalDecisions.Shared.ParameterFields()
Dim paramField As New CrystalDecisions.Shared.ParameterField()
Dim discreteVal As New CrystalDecisions.Shared.ParameterDiscreteValue()
paramField.ParameterFieldName = "MyDateRange"
discreteVal.Value = Common.MyDates
paramField.CurrentValues.Add(discreteVal)
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This works just fine when the report is first opened in the Crystal Report Viewer. If I open the report a second time, however, using a different parameter, the old data is still on the report, and when I click the Refresh button in the report viewer, up pops that Parameter dialog box. I set the option to discard any saved data when loading the report, but that didn't help at all. Is there a way to KEEP the parameter dialog box suppressed and be able to refresh the report?
I'm running Visual Studio 2008, and using the version of Crystal that comes with same. Any help anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated.

I am not sure I quite understand the flow, but here is my view of it:
Load report
Enter parameters
View report
Close report
Re-load the same report
Re-use the parameters entered in (2) above
View report
For ensuring that the previous data is not on the report (e.g.; step (3)), make sure that the report is disposed correctly ( use .close and .dispose on the report object). As long as the "Saved Data" option is not enabled (see KBA 1984381), the report should not have any data on re-use.
Re-using the same parameters as you used in (2) will require that you somehow save what the user entered and on second load of the report, step (5) you enter those parameters in your code. There are no CR APIs that will do this for you.
- Ludek
Senior Support Engineer AGS Product Support, Global Support Center Canada
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Problem of Date format in Parameter dialog box

This problem happen In Crystal XI but not in version 8.5. When a parameter dialog box showing up it provides a calander for users to select a date. When the user select a date from the calander the prompt alway return a date in the format of (yyyy-mm-dd) regardless of whatever we set in the Windows's "Regional Settings". In our region we set date as dd-mm-yyyy.
When we edit the date in the parameter field box to dd-mm-yyyy and click OK the prompt complains and says "the date should be in the format of "yyyy-mm-dd"". Why?. Could Business Objects or anyone let me know is there a way to edit option. In our regional our clients are used to with the date format of dd-mm-yyyy.
Thanks,
Robert

Thank Sastry,
With an IT professional or a computer expert it does not seem to be a matter as they understand this is just another way to write date but many of our clients already used to with the dd-mm-yyyy and they are not American. If you say this was by design howcome in CR 8.5 the date in this dialog box follows the format in the regional settings. In CR 8.5 when you change date format in regional setting it reflect immediately in the parameter box. Asume what you say is true I would like to ask Business Objects that this is a backward development or just a way to purse every one in this world to follow the American style.
Come back to the parameter box. Our clients have used our software that uses CR 8.5 for many years. Not all but many of them just type in the date directly to the box. If this can't be fixed how will our support staff tell our customers? I would like to hear something from Business Objects.
Rob

Why the Parameter Dialog not invoked with OpenReport RDC SDK?

Hai,
I am working in Crystal Reports XI Release 2 with Visual studio .Net 2003 (VC++).I am using RDC SDK
OpenReport function to create report.The report is generating without any fail.But the parameter dialog not invoked though the report is designed with parameter .
Here is the code snippet i used to generate
OnInitDialog()
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It creates report in ActiveX viewer but the parameter dialog not invoked before showing in viewer.
But in my another project i have used Crystal report 8 and CRPE32 dll(8 version) API PEStartPrintJob
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Edited by: SatheeshDharmaraj on Mar 18, 2009 12:29 PM

Please note:
The RDC is specifically designed around the COM technologies and is intended for use Visual Basic 6 developers; therefore, it is not recommended, nor tested, for use in a .NET application. This limits the support offering for the RDC in a .NET application; however, because COM is a supported technology in .NET the RDC is known to function as expected in a .NET application.
To support any issue encountered with the RDC in a .NET application, these issues need to be reproducible in a supported COM-based development tool (such as VB6).
Also, the RDC is a retired technology, no longer shipping in the current version of CR - CR 12.x:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/80bd35e5-c71d-2b10-4593-d09907d95289
this may have implications to your applications lifecycle as CR XI r2 will be out of support June 10 of this year. See the following for more details:
Business Objects Product Lifecycles [original link is broken]
I'd recommend you forget about RDC in .NET and use the CR Assemblies for .NET.
Nevertheless, if you absolutely must stay with the RDC in .NET, the error suggests that you are either not using any database logon code, or the code is incorrect. To connect the report to a database, you must use the connection properties bag. More information on the connection properties bag is [here|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/00635998-751e-2b10-9cba-f50ee1e4ef81]
C++ code could look something like this:
bstrt bstrReportPath("C:
Documents and Settings
Mujeeb
Desktop
VC++
RDC_VCPP_CR10
Report1.rpt";);
m_Application.CreateInstance("CrystalRuntime.Application.10";);
m_Report = m_Application-->OpenReport(bstrReportPath, vtTempCopy);
m_Report-->DiscardSavedData();
m_Report>Database>Tables>GetItem(1)>ConnectionProperties-->DeleteAll();
m_Report>Database>Tables>GetItem(1)>ConnectionProperties-->Add("Provider","SQLOLEDB.1";);
m_Report>Database>Tables>GetItem(1)>ConnectionProperties-->Add("Data Source","10.10.17.30";);
m_Report>Database>Tables>GetItem(1)>ConnectionProperties-->Add("User ID","sa");
m_Report>Database>Tables>GetItem(1)>ConnectionProperties-->Add("Password","excellence");
m_Report>Database>Tables>GetItem(1)>ConnectionProperties-->Add("Database","Northwind");
m_Report>Database>Verify();
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m_Viewer.ViewReport();
Now, you do not have to use the deleteAll property and simply log on to the database. Unfortunately only code I have handy for that is as described in the above doc. The code woudl be something like this in VB:
(ODBC)
report.database.tables(1).connectionProperties("DSN") = "the DSN"
report.database.tables(1).connectionProperties("user ID") = "the user ID"
report.database.tables(1).connectionProperties("database" = "the database name"
report.database.tables(1).connectionProperties("password") = "the password"
(if using OLE DB)
report.database.tables(1).connectionProperties("data source") = "the server name"
report.database.tables(1).connectionProperties("user ID") = "the user ID"
report.database.tables(1).connectionProperties("initial catalog") = "the database name"
report.database.tables(1).connectionProperties("password") = "the password"
(if using native connection)
report.database.tables(1).connectionProperties("server:) = "the server name"
report.database.tables(1).connectionProperties("user ID") = "the user ID"
report.database.tables(1).connectionProperties("password") = "the password"
I also recommend searching our notes database for more resources:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/advancedsearch?cat=sdn_ossnotes&query=&adv=true
The downloads section may also contain C++ sample code, but I am not sure if there will be anything that uses the connection properties bag. E.g.; do not use deprecated methods such as
.LogOnserver, .SetNthTableLogOnInfo, etc.
Ludek

Some parameters are not shown in parameter dialog

Hello,
I created a VB.NET program using VS2005 sample.
When the program refers to CR10's DLLs (VS2005 bundle),
it prompts all parameters correctly.
But when the program refers to CR12's DLLs, some parameters are not prompted.
I installed merge module 12.2.
I also checked CR11 (merge module 11.5) and found the result is equal to CS12.
Thank you

Sorry. I don't understand. Perhaps creating a phone case will be the better way to go(?). Phone cases can be obtained here;
http://store.businessobjects.com/store/bobjamer/DisplayProductByTypePage&parentCategoryID=&categoryID=11522300
Ludek

Direct print out with parameter values dialog

Post Author: lp75
CA Forum: .NET
Is it possible to get a parameter dialog on a direct print out ?reportDocument."Show a dialog similar to that one in CrystalReportViewer"reportDocument.PrintToPrinter(...);

Post Author: ole
CA Forum: .NET
reportDocument."Show a dialog similar to that one in CrystalReportViewer" is not possible, because ReportDocument has no user interface at all. You have to look in namespace CrystalDecisions.Windows.Forms. There are things like CrystalDecisions.Windows.Forms.PromptingDialog. There are also some other dialogs. I don´t, if that will work. Maybe it is a help. Please inform if you are successful. I think I will need it some day, too.

Parameter Field Value returns "no records"

I am using Crystal 11 and am new to Crystal but not to other Reportwriters. I have a Crystal report that has 2 parameter fields, one is "Enter Date" that prompts for the start and end date, the other "Select Items" prompts for the supply Item Numbers to be included in the report. In the "Edit Parameter: Select Items:" edit/create parameter dialog, the Select Item parameter has "Allow Multiple values" and "Allow discrete values" set to true. The report runs fine and returns any items entered in the "Select Items" prompt that has usage during the start & end date. My problem is ... if the entered Item Number for the Select Items parameter returns no records, I cannot report that Item Number as having zero usage. I cannot find a way at the time of report running to identify and report the "not found" items. I would also like to report the Start and End Dates parameters requested, but cannot, the Enter Date parameter returns an empty parameter field across the whole report. I'm sure other users have had this problem of reporting the requested parameter values. Need assistance.

Jeff's answer is one way to do it. There are others:
If you want the items with no data interspersed with the other items (say, in item number order), then you'd change the report to use your item master table and do a left join from that to the usage data. If a field from the usage table is null, then there was no usage, and you can condition a message based on that.
Or, if your parameter selects item numbers without some type of "ALL" option, then you can use arrays to keep track of which if the selected items printed. Then in the report footer, compare the list of items reported to the parameter items, and show which item numbers had no usage. (This might run a tad faster than the separate subreport that Jeff suggested - but maybe not...)
HTH,
Carl

Why Dynamic Parameter is not working, when i create report using stored procedure ?

Post Author: Shashi Kant
CA Forum: General
Hi all
Why Dynamic Parameter is not working, when i create report XI using stored procedure ?
Only i shaw those parameters which i used in my stored procedure, the parameter which i create dynamic using stored procedure
is not shown to me when i referesh the report for viewing the results.
I have used the same procedure which i mention below but can not seen the last screen which is shown in this .
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shashi kant

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As to the second issue, please try to use the following expression:
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Where is the parameter panel on the embedded Crystal Report preview in Visu

Where is the parameter panel on the embedded Crystal Report preview in Visual Studio?
I found a tweet on google about this.. but the link is invalid.. and I could not find the article on SDN.
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Hi,
What you've pasted the code here is absolutely correct.
You'll have to write the code in Forms builder.
You can either paste the same code in a procedure & call that procedure
from button's When-Button-Pressed trigger or paste the code in
your button's When-Button-Pressed trigger like this :
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[email protected]

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HAVING (SUM(PERIOD_NET_DR)-SUM(PERIOD_NET_CR))<>0.
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CA Forum: Crystal Reports
I just did a clean install of Vista Business and Crystal Reports 10. I'm only having one issue, but it is very annoying.
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Should I be able to supress some parameters from showing up on the enter parameters values dialog?
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Should I be able to stop these parameters from showing up? If so, how??
CR2008 SP1
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