open a windows form from a crystal report in visual studio 2005

[anithaa]

hi,

can we open a windows form from a crystal report in visual studio 2005?

thanking in advance!

[dip_developer]

hi,

can we open a windows form from a crystal report in visual studio 2005?

thanking in advance!

why do u need this???

[anithaa]

hi,

i am creating a windows application in visual studio 2005.currently i have created a crystal report which has many columns.what i want is....on the click of one of the columns in the report i want it to open another windows form...how do i make it possible.thanking in advance!

[dip_developer]

hi,

i am creating a windows application in visual studio 2005.currently i have created a crystal report which has many columns.what i want is....on the click of one of the columns in the report i want it to open another windows form...how do i make it possible.thanking in advance!

i dont think it is possible...

[CyberSoftHari]

Yes it is possible and you should aware of crystal report programming. There are some alternatives available. What (why for a particular field?) procedure you want to show a form?

Note: Report is only for showing details and printing purpose (which means final output of computerized system). For any changes, you have to close the report and go there (that form by menu selection) and modify. Simply clicking in report is not good practice and you will miss report load or refresh content.

[anithaa]

thank u so much for saying it is possible.u had asked me to avoid such things but i have no other choice. my problem is this:

i am workng on windows application in visual studio 2005.i have two forms namely form 1 and form 2. my form 1 has the crystal report in it. in my form 2 i have three textboxes. now the crystal report has 3 columns namely a,b,c.
now on the click of any column i want that rows details to go into the three respective textboxes. hence for this purpose i want the crystal report to redirect to another form. you have mentioned that it can be done programatically.how can i redirect my crystal report to a windows form on the click of any one of the columns....Thanking in advance

[CyberSoftHari]

Did you tried to place a listview in form2 and list, edit, save by clicking there (listview) then finally show the report.


I said it is not good practice. Let me explain “why?”
1. Show CR
2. Click field in CR then show the form1.
3. Modify something in form1.
4. Now your problem starts (again you will select show report command in form1)
5. Then what will happen for previous opened report? (Except data every thing looks same, how you find which CR is opened currently?)

Doing selection operation in Crystal Report is very complicated. There dip_developer pointed