Crystal Report for VS.NET 2003: Adding a new FieldObject at Runtime

[gkinu]

Hello,

I am creating a report that can have a varying number of columns that are only determined at run time.

I saw a solution that comes near what i want. I downloaded a collection of sample applications at businessobjects.com . The application a VB.NET windows application in vbnet_win_dynamic_report_formula.zip in the downloaded folder.

The slight problem with this solution is that you have to insert FormulaFields at design time then populate them at run time. Then you can suppress the unpopulated fields.

Is there a way of creating and inserting/adding the Fields (either TextObjects of Formula) on the fly without having to do this at design time first? I have a scenario where my columns can range from 2 to 48 and i do not want to create 48 of them at design time, but will eventually only use 2.

[dip_developer]

Hello,

I am creating a report that can have a varying number of columns that are only determined at run time.

I saw a solution that comes near what i want. I downloaded a collection of sample applications at businessobjects.com . The application a VB.NET windows application in vbnet_win_dynamic_report_formula.zip in the downloaded folder.

The slight problem with this solution is that you have to insert FormulaFields at design time then populate them at run time. Then you can suppress the unpopulated fields.

Is there a way of creating and inserting/adding the Fields (either TextObjects of Formula) on the fly without having to do this at design time first? I have a scenario where my columns can range from 2 to 48 and i do not want to create 48 of them at design time, but will eventually only use 2.

you can do what you want........please refer to this excellent article

Dynamic crystal report generation

[gkinu]

Thank you very much. I had actually seen this article earlier. But this article prescribes that you create a maximum number of FormulaFields at design time then suppress those to which there are no values assigned at run time. My question is, is there a way of creating the Fields at Runtime rather than DesignTime?