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Printing a treeview vs Crystal Reports

Hi all,

I need to figure the best solution to my problem.

<Background>
A Bill of materials application that has a treeview as the master and a
datagrid as the details. The treeview holds both master and detail
information but only displays a brief description. When a node is clicked,
if the node has children, it displays all Child information in detail form
in a datagrid. If it has no children, it simply displays itself as a row in
the datagrid but showing all of its details. All of the data is stored in a
dataset during run-time and saved to a file as XML. So far pretty simple.
</Background>

<Problem>
I am asked to print this data showing all information like a treeview (with
+ - signs and dotted lines). I came up with two solutions, but both give me
problems. My first idea was to create a Crystal Report. It seemed the most
logical, but I cant find any way of printing it to look somewhat like a
treeview. My second idea was to print the actual treeview itself. The
major concern for me at this point is to format the text so it doesn't run
off the page and also how to break it up if its more than one page (which is
most probable).
</Problem>

I still think that Crystal Reports is the best way to go, but how to format
it to have those lines...

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Best regards,

Marco Martin
Nov 15 '05 #1
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