Crystal reports help

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Bruce Wiebe

Hi all

Does anyone know how to bind a crystal report to a dataset that has been
retrieved from a web service to a local machine so that it can be
displayed on a windows form.

any help would be very helpful
 
Hi Bruce,

When you say the dataset has been retrieved, in what format does it exist on
the local machine? If it is a table in sql server, it's easy; even if it's
..xls .csv .dbf or .txt it's also pretty easy.

Bernie Yaeger
 
Hi Bernie

Thanks for your reply should have mentioned in the original post that
the data is being retrieved via a select statement from a sql database
that resides on the webserver. The result from the select statement is
then returned as a datataset via the webservice to the desktop machine
and it is this data that i want to bind to a crystal report

thanks once again for your reply
 
Hi Bruce,

Probably the best thing to do is to copy the dataset into a sql table on the
client or into a .dbf or a .csv on the client. you will need the odbc
driver in .net to copy it to a .dbf file.

I don't think - but I'd recommend you check with crystal - that you can bind
to a dataset in memory.

HTH,

Bernie
 
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