Web Elements in Crystal Reports on BOE XIr2

Question

<p>Hi</p><p>I am trying to set up my crystal report with multiple web elements controls and had a few questions.  Any assitance would be appreciated:</p><p>1) I have set up a radio button control and two drop down controls in my report.  When I post the report to BOE and view it in Infoview, I still see the initial parameter page pop up before getting to the report.  I have default values for each of the parameters and would like the report to bypass the parameter page and use the default values.  Once in the report, I am able to change the parameter values by using the web elements controls.  Any suggestions to get rid of the parameter page?</p><p>2) I also need to set up a hierarchical set of controls in the report.  I would like my radio button to be at the highest level and have the drop down box data be controlled by the radio button selection. How can I set this up?</p><p>3) Radio button - dynamic labels: I&#39;ve done this with a drop down box where the data gets populated from the result set data.  I was hoping to do that with a radio button as well, where the number of radio buttons and labels get dynamically generated based on the number of values in a column. </p><p> Appreciate any help with these.</p><p>Thanks<br />AJ</p>

Answer 1

<p>hello AJ,</p><p>1) good question. once you&#39;ve built a custom page you never want to see that default prompt page again. what you should do is publish a hyperlink to your CMC that is an opendocument link with default prompt values to your report containing the controls. then hide the report itself in a folder that the end users can&#39;t see. this way only the hyperlink is available and no one will see that prompt page again.</p><p>2) if you open up the webelementsdcp.rpt from the webelements.zip folder, this is an example of heirarchical controls. for the first control in the ElementSet, substitute the WESelectCascade for a radio button control and you&#39;ll get the result you&#39;re looking for.</p><p>3) see #2...once you&#39;ve done the substitution above, the radio button will be using the same live data that the cascading select menu did.</p><p>cheers,</p><p>jamie</p>