Printing from Crystal Viewer

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Posted By: sbare — 9 May 2007 at 4:12pm

When I click the print button in the Crystal Report Viewer (CR XI R2) it renders the report as a PDF file prior to printing. This adds an extra step for my users. Is there a way to print without going to a PDF file first?

Posted By: hilfy — 10 May 2007 at 8:26am

Not that I know of. This is the way the viewer does it's printing. When you're in BusinessObjects Enterprise, there's a way to set it to use an ActiveX printing control, but I don't see a way to set that in the .NET Crystal Viewer component.

-Dell

Posted By: sbare — 10 May 2007 at 5:04pm

Dell,

Thanks for your response. I did find that property on the viewer control and set it to ActiveX. It is much better.

Thanks,
Steve

Posted By: hilfy — 11 May 2007 at 7:20am

Just for my own edification, which property is it and which version of VS are you using?

Thanks!

-Dell

Posted By: sbare — 11 May 2007 at 4:22pm

I am using VS 2005 and CR XI Developer Edition - Release 2.

The CrystalReportViewer property is PrintMode.

Hope that helps.

Now I am trying to figure out how to set the default for the group tree to off.

Posted By: jhodz2001 — 20 Jul 2008 at 9:57pm

just set the property of the HASTOGGLEGROUPTREEBUTTON to FALSE or TRUE.

hope it would help

Edited by jhodz2001 - 20 Jul 2008 at 10:00pm

Posted By: TonyZ — 25 Jul 2008 at 7:40am

There is also a PrintToPrinter command if you want to print directily without viewing first.

rpt.PrintToPrinter(1, False, 0, 0)

TonyZ