CR V11 and ability to export as csv in crystalreportviewer

[Former Member]

We just bought CR V11, I have SP 2 installed and I am looking to for the export as csv in crystaldecisions.windows.forms.crystalreportviewer.

I can export in code put we would like the option for users to export as one of the options in the viewer, we use this viewer everywhere in our code.

Does anyone know if this possible, I have spent a lot of time on this. I have u2ftext.dll installed and working.

I can do it in the trial version of 12 but we selected X11 for its compatibility with existing 10.5 reports, the sole reason for our upgrade was for this feature.

I notice in the release notes various bugs and fixes for this.

Can anyone tell me if I am flogging a dead horse, this feature was available in 8.5 and is in 12

[former_member183750 · Accepted solution]

Flogging a dead horse is close. CSV export format is not available from the viewer. See [this|https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/AvailableExportFormats%2CCrystalReports9.1toCrystalReports+2008] wiki for details of the export options for each version of CR.

Ludek

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the reply Luduk, I have seen this reference before, we dont to any crystal web but I assume the dhtml viewer is the web viewer, is its functionality the same as the windows.forms.crystalreportviewer ?, I can export as csv in the V11 active X viewer and there doesn't seem any logical reason to remove the forms export function in V11 and the return it in V12 but none of the 11 patches.

I can see why crystal would remove it from 10.5 !

If the dhtml viewer is different do you know for sure that my horse is dead ?

[former_member183750 · Accepted solution]

Your horse is dead. For sure.

DHTML is web based viewer.

ActiveX viewer was included with the Report Design Component (RDC) that was normally used with VB 6 or other COM compliant languages. You can use the RDC in .NET but this has not been tested and is thus not supported. For more info see the following:

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/f0751a7f-a81d-2b10-55a0-e6df0e1b...

Also note that the RDC has been retired in version 12.x of Crystal Reports.

Ludek

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks for your help Ludek, its not the answer I wanted but it helped clear some things up. Note there seems to be issues with RDC and visual studio 2008 and I think only on Vista, but we definately need it for our VB6 code.

Edited by: julez on Oct 6, 2009 1:09 AM

Edited by: julez on Oct 6, 2009 1:14 AM