Six Quick Crystal Reports Design Tips
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Highlighting Data

Often times the style of certain types of items needs to be changed to make them stand out on the report. This is commonly used to indicate negative numbers, or numbers over or under a certain threshold. Crystal Reports has built in support for this that makes this easy to accomplish.

In this example, the formatting of the "Units in Stock" objects needs to be changed when the value is less than 15. To accomplish this, first select the field by clicking on it once. Select "Highlighting Expert" from the Format menu; then select "New".

Figure 6: The Highlighting Expert

You will then be able to set options for when and how the highlighting will occur. For this example, I set the font color to red and the background to yellow, when the “Units in stock” object is below 15.

Figure 7: Highlighting when Units in Stock is below 15


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Name: Uday
Date: 12/23/2008 4:57:17 AM
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This artical is very helpful for us.
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Name: Putxi
Date: 11/22/2008 7:17:45 PM
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Title: crystal reports   
Name: Vishal
Date: 11/19/2008 12:55:45 AM
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good article
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Name: RamkumarM
Date: 11/3/2008 5:47:46 AM
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Very nice
Title: VP/CFO, CIO   
Name: Lee Pavis
Date: 10/31/2008 4:32:24 PM
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New to Crystal and would like to see a demo with sample reports.
Title: Good Article   
Name: RD
Date: 10/10/2008 4:16:23 PM
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Informative article, with easy to understand examples. Great job.
Title: Thanks for the info   
Name: KA
Date: 9/20/2008 10:50:50 AM
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Thanks
For all of the tips these will be very usful,and defenitly ones I didn't know about. Its always nice to learn something new, keep up the good work!
Title: Thank for sharing youe EXP   
Name: thanan
Date: 9/17/2008 4:16:47 AM
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Great tips
Title: Watermark   
Name: gavin
Date: 8/11/2008 1:19:01 AM
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On Figure 16, the watermark does not underlay the lines in the detail secion of the report. Is there a way to make this happen?
Title: Crystal Report through click on gridview button   
Name: Saqib
Date: 8/8/2008 12:30:25 AM
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Hello,

I am using VS-2005 for creating my website.

My records display in gridview, and I created a link button name "PreviewQuotation" on gridview row for each record . On the other side I created a page to use crystal report viewer to show the selected record of the Gridview Row.

But I have no idea how to pass my Primary Key field value to Crystal Report page to preview the particular row recod when click on "PreviewQuotation" button on gridview.

Regards,
Saqib Malick
Title: Helpful Article   
Name: Dulce Bautista
Date: 8/1/2008 10:28:58 AM
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Great tips!
Title: using templates/background images for reports   
Name: sixela
Date: 6/25/2008 4:32:07 AM
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hi all, will it be possible to use templates/background images in previewing a report, but excluding it from printing? can i ask for references in suppressing sections through code? since watermarking images in reports might be one way to solve this problem...thanks!
Title: Working in Crystal report 8.0   
Name: JP
Date: 6/23/2008 8:36:38 AM
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I am using crystal report ver 8.0
I tried this but 'FORMAT EDITOR DISPLAY STRING" is not available. Could anyone suggest how it is possible???
Title: Crystal report 8,8.5,10 version   
Name: JP
Date: 6/23/2008 8:31:18 AM
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Does it work in crystal report 8.5 version? I didn't get
Title: ASP.net   
Name: Din
Date: 6/12/2008 10:37:08 AM
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jeff,
The solution is working in the design time of crystal reports, but when I viewed it CrystalReportViewer control in aps.net it shows the strange symbol perhapes it is not applying the wingding font in aps.net.
Any solution for that?
thanks,
Din
Title: Its Good article   
Name: Mukunda
Date: 6/4/2008 5:36:10 AM
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It's really a good article, add some more examples

Thanks
Mukunda
Title: Its very nice one   
Name: Jyotsna
Date: 5/29/2008 7:23:08 AM
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feeling good abt this article..very helpful
Title: Crystal report   
Name: Velika
Date: 5/25/2008 4:07:08 PM
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Thanks for this very helpful article.
Can you tell me how to count the record number(or groupnumber) for any group like this:
1.
1.1
1.2.1
1.3.2
Please help.
karno8400@yahoo.fr
Title: Good   
Name: Rajani
Date: 5/22/2008 6:53:02 AM
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It was good for desinging crystal reports in different way
Title: Good one   
Name: sneha
Date: 5/15/2008 8:34:19 AM
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Good one for the beginners....
Thanks it helped me too.
Title: Super   
Name: saima
Date: 5/11/2008 6:57:38 AM
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Its really super jeff. very helpful
Title: Six Quick Crystal Reports Design Tips   
Name: Shohagh
Date: 4/24/2008 1:04:15 AM
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ThankS for such an important post. It will help me designing a Crystal Report... ... ...
Title: Mr.   
Name: allanamk
Date: 4/18/2008 4:44:42 PM
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Hi

I tried that check box from the Windings in the Boolean format field -string formula from common tab...But still shows me 0 in the preview screen


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Title: Mr.   
Name: allanamk
Date: 4/18/2008 2:17:43 PM
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This is really nice support to novice and vatirans.

Thanks
Title: Mr.   
Name: Mahmoud allan abu_Samra
Date: 4/18/2008 2:17:11 PM
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This is really nice support to novice and vatirans.

Thanks
Title: Six Quick Crystal Reports Design Tips   
Name: saaden
Date: 4/17/2008 6:28:14 AM
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I need to start,so
It's really a good starting step.
Title: Tips on Crystal Reports   
Name: John
Date: 4/16/2008 10:39:38 AM
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Great tips thanks.
Title: Thanks   
Name: Mukunda
Date: 4/15/2008 11:21:18 PM
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Its good article,it's helps me.
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Name: Narendra
Date: 4/2/2008 9:13:27 PM
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It's really a good article,it's helps both beginers and develeopers
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Name: ajeet
Date: 4/2/2008 5:21:38 AM
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Title: Thank you   
Name: Ajeet
Date: 3/28/2008 11:07:08 AM
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Thanks Jeff, that was helpful.
Title: Crystal Report   
Name: Janu
Date: 3/25/2008 7:08:22 AM
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Excellent
Title: Crystal Report   
Name: Seema
Date: 3/24/2008 6:14:46 AM
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Hi,
It is really excellent.
Title: version of CR?   
Name: Eric Moreau
Date: 3/11/2008 8:04:22 PM
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Which version of Crystal Reports your article is focusing on? The one provided with VS2008?

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