Crystal report templates?

Question

Asp.net provides master pages, similarly in Winforms we present the concept of visual innate. The same parent-child concept is a lot of different technologies.

Please indicate how I can create a template or parent report and add other reports from this layout into it.

Answer 1

Templates are not provided from Crystal Reports, in fact.

Instead, you can use some workaraunds to help customize the report:

• Create reports under Header.rpt and Footer.rpt and import them as sub-reports in Page Header and Page Footer ** [when changing Header.rpt you need to open each report and click re-import additional report to refresh it]
• After editing, you can save the chart as a template , so when creating a new one, you can use the same configuration for style, colors, etc.
• Store an empty report somewhere with a title, style, fonts, fields already set , and use it as a template for new reports (instead of starting with a real empty one)
• Save the client logo in DB so that (you can dynamically change it at run time) and use it in the drop-down column