Remove Multi columns in Detail Section

Question

I'm converting reports from Crystal 8.5 to Crystal 2008.  My old report has a detail section with multiple columns, and I want to remove this formatting.  The check box in the section format window is grey and can't be changed.  What is the magic combination to get the detail section back to no columns?

Answer 1

I'm struggling with the same problem, only I'm currently working with a report in version 8.5.  The report was originally designed years ago using the Label wizard, but now the client wants to change it to a regular report. 
I decided to "peek under the hood" and this is what I found:
The Crystal Report Object has a property "Kind" which will have a value corresponding to the application constant CRReportKind.  The possible values are these: 1 (crColumnarReport), 2 (crLabelReport), or 3 (crMulColumnReport).  Versions 8.5 and 10 are the same.  I'm thinking that this property is what's preventing us from getting to that grayed-out checkbox.  However, it is a read-only property, meaning, obviously, that you can't change it. 
The report I'm working with is a 2 (crLabelReport).  This is the VB6 code I used to find that:
Dim reportname As String
Dim oApp As CRAXDRT.Application
Dim oKind As CRAXDRT.CRReportKind
Dim oRpt As CRAXDRT.Report
Dim oSection As CRAXDRT.Section
Set oApp = CreateObject("CrystalRuntime.Application")
reportname = "(put the complete path and filename of the report here)"
Set oRpt = oApp.OpenReport(reportname, 1)
Debug.Print oRpt.Kind
Set oRpt = Nothing
Set oApp = Nothing
It doesn't look promising.  You will probably have to redo the report, or, it may be possible to recreate the report in VB only setting the Kind property to 1.  If someone else can verify that this is doable, it may be the best solution.
Edited by: marykDBA on Jun 4, 2010 10:59 PM
Edited by: marykDBA on Jun 4, 2010 11:01 PM