I need to display data in a crystal report in this format. I am new to crystal report I have no idea of doing this. Please help on this how can I draw these outer lines. The database is access
In the menu, click insert and use either line or box or a combination of both to create outer lines for data. If using a cross-tab, report, use the format cross-tab for line properties.
There are numerous resources online to learn about CR.
Example: https://www.crystalreports.com/guides/#lp-pom-block-1322
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I'd like to automate the creation of monthly reports. I have a database through which I can export an Excel file (or csv, for the record). The table format is such that the number of columns (~500) will always be the exact same, but the number of rows (25-100) is variable.
The end goal is an excel tab with a few graphs/charts based on said data. For the charts, I'll only need to use maybe 10 columns of data out of the 500, but all of the rows.
I would like to automate the creation of this report as much as possible. Ideally, it will be able to be used by people with limited Excel knowledge. I would think I could set it up such that they can export the file out of the database, input it into my created sheet, and receive an output of charts.
This seems simple but I can't find much info on something like this. I just want to tell Excel "for every inputted file, make a pie chart out of these columns, a line graph out of these columns, a bar graph out of these...etc etc"
Power Query is where I started, and it helped to clean up the large number of unneeded columns, but I don't see where the functionality to automatically create charts comes into play. Macros/VBA seemed like an obvious next step, but I'm worried about how to set it up such that other users won't have to mess with the macros to get a desired end result. Again, ideally it would be as simple as inputted a file path, clicking a button, and getting graphs outputted.
Any tips or advice on how to approach this or what Excel tools that would be easiest to use would be great. Thank you in advance!
I'm using SoftArtisans ExcelWriter for SSRS (ver 8.6), and am wondering if it is possible to create a (non-pie) chart, e.g. a Stacked Bar chart, that has multiple series?
I can create pie charts easily enough, and that is what the help docs show, but there is no samples for other types of charts for SSRS integration.
The excel template is embedded in the .rdl file, and the spreadsheet is created when the user exports the generated report using OfficeWriter's Excel rendering extension. However the report is run manually by users, so I don't have the ability to execute any code to modify the Excel object before the user sees it.
Can anyone either confirm that only pie charts are possible for SSRS Integration, or provide some insight into how other chart types are possible?
You can create any type of chart that Excel can create, since you are creating your chart in your template file with Excel.
Here is an example of how I setup my template to build a scatter chart (Please ignore the title of the chart, I forgot to rename it from Pie Chart).
I insert a chart into my template, set the type to be scatter, and I placed 4 data markers under my chart, from two data sources.
Next I edit the Chart's series and point them to the data markers in my file. When the template is populated from ExcelWriters SSRS integration, it will replace all the datamarkers with your data, and update the chart's series.
After redeploying the template file to my report server, I can now export the file to Excel for OfficeWriter, and my output is shown below.
Disclaimer: I am a developer on OfficeWriter and work for SoftArtisans the makers of OfficeWriter.
Please let me know if this helps.
You should be able to create any type of chart.
The way that OfficeWriter SSRS integration works (and just the plain Template object for that matter), is that it takes all of your data and inserts it into your data markers. Then it finds references in your workbook that pointed to your data markers, and expands them to point to all of the new inserted data.
So really you can add any type of chart. You just have to make sure that the chart you create points to the data markers as the source data.
A data marker will correspond to a single series or to horizontal axis data. Then as the data is populated, the values in the series are populated.
On our reporting demo page there's a link at the bottom that says "View Report Template" that you can click on to download and Excel file that shows a variety of different charts pointing to data markers.
I have a report where I have 50+ fields and I am exporting this report from crystal to excel. Once in excel the data columns are the proper width but the headings are truncated. Is there a way to get the headings to dynamically expand like the data does?
Have you tried using the grid line tools to line up all your columns and headers? Ensure snap to grid is on and that all headers/fields are the same size on screen.
Basically you want the crystal report in the designer to look similar to an excel report; with all the headers and fields in a grid like structure.
Crystal also produced a document many moons ago when they were owned by Seagate describing how to avoid formatting problems when exporting to excel. Check it out HERE
This helped me a load when I had to build stock reports and summaries for one of my customers.
I am working on an excel report in CrystalReports, in VS2005. I have a field in the Details section which can have up to 255 characters of text, and I want the height of the row in excel to expand so that the entire text can be seen initially when the report is generated.
I set CanGrow=True in the field's properties, and the field does seem to grow; the field is only one line (Height=159), but many of the rows display multiple, wrapped lines of text. Some rows intermittently have the bottem half of the last line of text cut off; the user has to expand the row a little bit to see it. There doesn't seem to be a particular field length that causes this - in one case, it has four lines total in the output, and in another case, it has only three.
Can anyone suggest what might be the cause of this, or how I could work around it?
Thanks in advance for any help you guys can offer.
[Edit: I am no longer working on this project, so I never found out what became of this setting. Most likely it wasn't fixed, since it's not a critical issue.]
One solution to this issue that I've come up with in the past is to have two separate reports. One for display and exporting to pdfor rtf and another report for exporting to Excel.
I know in general this is not a good approach because there is the possibility for data to be different in the export than the display report, but if careful it works well.
I have a situation where a client needs data printed in a specific format on a report, but there is way to much data to physically be able to fit on a page. We worked out a solution that I run a "display version" of the report that fits most of the data, but the rest of the data necessary for there client is added only to the "Excel version" of the report.
To do this I simply load the "display report" to the report viewer as you normally would, but when you go to export the report I load the "excel report" with the same parameters as the "display report" and call the code to export the data to Excel.
By using this method the "display report" can be formatted any way necessary without having to worry about messing up the export to excel. The excel report fields can then be made a smaller size than required by the display report because the data should export even regardless of the size of the field. Doing this allows you to fit more data on the Excel export report.
Since both reports use the same datasource you will have an issue if you make a change that you have to remember to go verify the database on each report to see the new database changes, but this method allows you to include more data and in a different format than the display version of the report.
Hope this helps.
While not a solution for Crystal (I don't know of one), as part of the reporting team at GrapeCity-Data Dynamics, we've worked with similar issues taking free-form reports to excel spreadsheets for a decade. In our Data Dynamics Reports product we came up with a completely new way of solving the problem of exporting reports to excel.
We allow you to create a template for the report output. The template is a basic excel file with place holders for the various textboxes (or other controls) and regions (tables, lists, etc.) in the report. You can open this template inside of excel and modify the properties of the cells and rows. In the scenario you describe, you can export a "template" from Data Dynamics Reports and then modify the autosize property of the row in the template containing the placeholder for the textbox you're struggling with.
When you export the report to excel next time, just specify the template to Data Dynamics Reports (which can be done programmatically and transparently to the end user) and Data Dynamics Reports will honor all settings you specified in the template.
This is hard to explain so there is a ~2 minute screencast that shows this feature at our website in the following location:
http://www.datadynamics.com/Products/DDRPT/ScreencastViewer.aspx?ID=XLS01
For more information about the product and for a free trial download visit: http://www.datadynamics.com/DataDynamicsReports
Scott Willeke
GrapeCity - Data Dynamics
Hi I have a Reporting service report. I am using grouping on the report. My report looks great in HTML rendering, but in excel version the first and the last columns are having extra lines, where that lines are not in html version.
Could anyone please give me a hint , why its so.
Thanks,
Suni
If any controls overlap or are even a single pixel higher or lower in the designer the Excel rendering engine will interpret them as a new row. Use the property sheet to verify that no controls overlap and that the top and height properties for the controls are identical.
Hope this helps,
Bill
I ran into this problem a lot when using report headers, where a company logo or report title was much longer than any of the fields of the report, causing merged cells. There is an option you can set in the config of the report server to use simple headers, as well as limit some of the impact of the misaligned cells issue Bill Mueller mentions. Here is a good example of how to achieve this: http://mysqlserverblog.com/2008/01/03/changing-export-options-for-reporting-services.aspx
i have seen this quite a lot, if people tend to export the report a lot i remove all of the formatting from it, limit the number of groups you can drill down into and do as Bill says and make sure you have no overlapping controls.