Crystal Report (or SSRS), the current text around the image

Question

I want to have this layout in Crystal Reports:

How can i do this? If this cannot be done in CR or SSRS, are there any other alternatives?

Answer 1

I do not think that this can be done using Crystal Reports. I am not so familiar with SSRS, but looking at the field parameters, I do not believe that this can be done with this. In common places, fields are static in reports.

I think this is best done using html / css or even XSL. I don’t know what the problem is, but I would suggest that you should be able to output an html or xml file from your application, which can be opened using a web browser. For html, you should be able to use align or even float or text-align attributes in css to accomplish this.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

If you want to have several columns of static text in Crystal Reports, you just need to create an ad with several text fields, that is, create 2 text fields side by side and add text to each until it appears to the right.

If you want to have 2 columns of data, here's how:

• Keep it simple and start with a clean report.
• Add the fields you are interested in to the details section. Resize them so that they use only the first spaces 4 .
• Go to your section specialist → More and enable the Format with multiple columns option.
• A new Layout tab will appear. In this example, set the Width to 4 and leave the spaces at 0.
• Preview report. If you have enough data in your data set, it will automatically go to the right side of the screen.

It will take several minutes of fijing with measurements to make everything look the way you want. You can even have more than two columns if you just set the detail size.

In addition, the menu "Layout" has the option "Format groups with multiple columns." It's hard to describe in the text, but play with it if you have grouping levels.