Business Objects For Easy Crystals Reports Export
In crystal Reports export to Excel, the output result may appear to be unusable, which would require quite a lot of re-formatting to be done. This is a difficult part in exporting Crystal Reports .NET to Excel. You would need to use programming steps that is allowed by Crystal Reports, if you need to create reports that can be effectively exported to Excel. Before the report is exported, the report undergoes WYSIWYG translation. While Excel use its line-by-line row/column placement, Crystal Reports tries to place the report using the x/y coordinates, and this creates the problem.
Business Objects provides an easier way to export your Crystal Reports to Excel, and this is given in their white paper which could be found at http://support.businessobjects.com/communityCS/TechnicalPapers/cr10_export_excel.pdf.asp It provides you with information which appears to an easier way to use Crystal Reports export to Excel.
Crystal Reports is one of the most popular report writer in the world today. It has the unique features to provide you with the ease to create reports for enterprise reporting. The report writer lets you connect to various database sources, and let you create reports from a single or multiple databases. You can access any database with native ODBC, OLE DB, and JDBC connectivity, connecting to relational, OLAP, XML, legacy, and enterprise data sources, which include, Oracle, IBM DB2, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, and Informix. In Crystal Reports XI, XML, JDBC, IBM DB2, etc.
In exporting crystal reports for publishing on the web, you will need to have a pre-view of the document to find out how they will look like. In saving the report configuration, you have to save the export configuration of the report, so that you may save time in re-configuration the export each time the report is run. Further, for Crystal Reports export editing, optimised accuracy, and form processing, Crystal Reports allow you to enhance and expand a report in a standard work processing applications. For Crystal reports export, the parameter control for N Value for top N style reports provides the means of a single report to meet the needs of multiple users. This reduces the total number of reports that are created and supported. You could provide the end-users with the kind of formats that they prefer, by formatting Crystal Reports exports in Excel, PDF, XML, HTML, RTF, and more. You have the option to choose the server-side and thin-client report viewer controls, which include, DHTML page (WebForms) viewer, .NET WinForms viewer, Java viewer, ActiveX, and Report Part viewer (mobile viewer). This will let you render reports in various formats without much of additional coding. The features for the end-user, such as, page forward/back, drill up/down, export, and print are included automatically and these can be customised as per your requirements. In Crystal Report exports, you can highlight specific information for your end-users. You may also introduce report alerts in your reports, and place user-defined messages, which may appear when the report data meet some conditions. For better navigation, you can you can define specific navigation paths between objects in the same or multiple reports. You can use hyper-links, to put an interactive feature in your reports, and connect the reports to different relevant documents. These may include websites, and other reports.
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