Opening reports

You can open a Crystal Report from your email application, from your file system, from your favorites, from your history, or by choosing the Open button from the standard toolbar. The appearance of the report depends on how its creator set it up. For example, a report might open with data that is stored with the report. The creator of the report may have enabled parameters that let you filter the data contained within the report without ever reconnecting to the original data store.

When you open a Crystal Report you can navigate through the report, print pages, zoom in and out, and perform other Crystal Report type functions. If you have a connection to the Internet open, clicking on a link in the report opens the target Web page in your browser.

To open a Crystal Report from within ViewerFX for Crystal Reports:

Do one of the following:

•         Click the Open button from the standard toolbar. In the Open dialog box, select a filename, and click Open. Crystal Reports usually have the extension .rpt.

•         Click a report link from your favorites list.

•         Click a report link from your history list.

•         Click a report link from the Recent button from the standard toolbar.

If the Connection Settings dialog box appears, the report needs to connect to a data store to retrieve the data to preview. Once you fill in the appropriate connection / parameter settings click OK. The status bar displays the progress of validating and opening the report.

If a report is unable to connect to a valid data store it will not show the preview window.

Note: If more than one report is open, you can switch between reports by doing one of the following:

•         Choose the report name from the Tabs button from the standard toolbar.

•         Click the report tab within the report preview pane.