One Report, Multiple Report Output Options in Crystal Reports
Posted on 02. Feb, 2009
Categories: Reporting
One of the disadvantages of using groupings in a single Crystal report is that the export into Excel makes the data “unsortable.” However, there is a neat way around this. You can use the suppressing section functionality to, in one report, prompt a user if they want to export it cleanly to Excel (suppressing all of the groupings). This is great if end-users want one report with different output options. The one downside is that you couldn’t schedule this in many tools because report needs the prompt – export to Excel yes/no.
This tip addresses of one of the biggest challenges that consultants have with clients:
Trying to minimize the number of custom reports required by the organization.
Report-creep may not be a widely-used term but I have seen people request two different reports for essentially the same information. The PDF below walks you through how to use one report in multiple ways.
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