Crystal Reports Alternative To Subreport
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Crystal reports alternative to subreport. To link a subreport to the data in the primary report. Crystal reports was added by shaiss in apr 2009 and the latest update was made in sep 2020. If you are creating a new subreport or importing an existing report as a subreport from the insert menu click subreport. When a single condition is altered new details must be entered for each use.
Retrieve record count of subreport in crystal reports. Crystal reports applies to. The problem of presentation. Keep reading for step by step details on crystal reports linking main report data from sub report fields.
Unlinked subreports are standalone reports and their data is not linked to data in the. You can combine data that cannot be linked and present different views of the same data in a single report. In other words i m looking for vendors that either have similar strengths or qualities that crystal reports lacks. I want to know if there is any alternative to sub reports in crystal reports that can be used to handle a 1 to many relationship.
We refer a workbook to prepare a crystal report using sub reports below are the steps that a user should follow to start work on crystal report enterprise 4 0. If you struggle with reporting with sap crystal reports here are some signs that it might be time to consider an alternative. Subreports allow you to combine unrelated reports into a single report. How to link the subreport with the main report when you link a subreport to a main report the program creates the link using a parameter field.
Choose or create a report and click the link tab. Up the reports in subreport with the data in main report. The options are organized alphabetically. Creation of crystal report.
At this point to create an unlinked subreport in crystal reports 2013 click the ok button and then click into the report at the place where you want to display the subreport data. I used sub reports to handle this situation but the reports became so slow that they were unusable. I have a 1 to many relationship in my report. Thanks the thing is that the alternative text is for subreport and there is another subreport in the same row of that subreport so i cant use the shared variable because the alternative text has to be in the same row as the other subreport.
Sap crystal reports of course does reports. It is a report within a report. It s possible to update the information on crystal reports or report it as discontinued duplicated or spam. Now to create the main report login to cre 4 0 and click on the file tab then select the option from data source.
The list of alternatives was updated sep 2020.