About the ribbon

ViewerFX for Crystal Reports organizes its commands in a ribbon at the top of the window. The ribbon has two tabs: Report Viewer, for working with report files, and Preview, for working within the open report.

A. Report Viewer tab, B. Preview tab

Note: Hold the mouse pointer over a command for a moment to see its name.

Report Viewer tab

The Report Viewer tab holds the commands that act on report files:

• Report — work with report files: Open (see Opening reports), Close, and Recent, a drop-down list of recently opened reports.
• Favorites — save and organize favorite reports: Add (see Saving favorites) and Organize (see Organizing favorites).
• Send — deliver the open report: Print, Export, Email, and FTP (see About report distribution).
• View — Refresh the report’s data, open Settings (the Settings window, for managing saved tools and customizing the work area — see Customizing the application), and Tabs, a drop-down for switching between and closing open reports (see Using the navigation tabs).
• Support — product support commands: Activate (see Activating the product), Help (opens this documentation site in your browser), About, and Update.

Preview tab

The Preview tab holds the commands that act within the open report:

• Panels — show or hide report panels: Parameters, which toggles Crystal Reports’ own parameter side-panel, and Groups, the report’s group tree (see Navigating with the group tree).
• Navigation — move through the report: Find Text (see Finding words in a report), First, Previous, Next, Last, and a Go to Page box for jumping to a page by its number (see Paging through reports).
• View — adjust the view: Zoom (see Magnifying and reducing the view), the record-selection Formula (see Using the selection formula), and Close View, which closes the open report.
• Tools — Command Line, which opens the Command Line Builder (see Command line parameters).

Note: Both tabs have a View group, but they hold different commands — the Report Viewer tab’s View group has Refresh, Settings, and Tabs, while the Preview tab’s View group has Zoom, Formula, and Close View.