Displaying Binary data (Word Document) in th Crystal report

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Hi,

We are using crystal Reports 2008 and distributing these crystal reports through ASP.NET web pages.

We have word documents converted to Binary and stored in SQL Server 2000. Can any one suggest how to display these docs(in binary format) in the crystal report.?

Thanks

Rama

[former_member183750 · Accepted solution]

In the RAS documentation I found under BlobFieldObjectClass in the remarks:

A BLOB field is a large binary object. It represents an OLE object or a bitmap of some form. You can only associate a BlobFieldObject object with a DBField object. That is, a BlobFieldObject object can only be used to represent data from a database. The size limit on BlobFieldObject objects is 4 GB.

E.g.; there is no way to change the word doc at runtime, but if itu2019s a DB field, it should display like a picture image. Note that only the 1st page of the document will display. One way to see this is in the CR designer. The way it works in the designer, is the way it will work at runtime - at best...

Ludek

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