Crystal Reports

To demonstrate how to create a Crystal report, the following fields were added to a new report in the Catalogue module in EMu:

Fields

When the report is run for the first time a message box displays with the following message:

New Report

When the report Type is Crystal Report or Crystal ADO Report, clicking Yes will generate the required data output files and will open the Crystal Reports Designer application:

Crystal Reports Designer

Note: To create an ADO Crystal Report or convert a Crystal report to use ADO rather than ODBC in EMu 5.0 onwards requires a Developer Edition of Crystal Reports Designer. More details here.

If No is clicked, the Crystal Reports Designer will not open, but the output files will still be generated and copied to your computer.

There are two ways to create the report in Crystal Reports Designer:

  1. Using the Report Wizard
  2. Using a Blank Report