We've got an old VB6 application we wrote years ago, that we're working on
converting parts of, to an ASP.NET application. So far, the work is going
well.
Now I'm looking at trying to convert the Crystal Reports to the new system.
To use the terminology that Crystal uses, the old VB6 application used a
"pull" methodology, meaning that the stored procedure was specified within
the .RPT file, and parameters were all there, and when you invoked it, you
passed an array of parameters (and formulas, if you used any) to the report
so that it could run the stored procedure, giving the parameters it needs to
the stored procedure in order to run the report. (These reports are all
written using Crystal Reports 8.5.)
The new system will use Crystal Reports 9, and I would rather use a "push"
methodology instead, giving it a dataset of data that I'll have previously
filled by running the stored procedure outside of the Crystal Report.
My problem is, I don't know how to remove the stored procedure from the .RPT
file, but leave all of the formatting and design that has been written
already into the report. All of the examples that come with Crystal Reports
9 assume that you're going to be writing a report from scratch, which doesn'
t work for me.
How do I do what I am trying to do?
Rod