crystal reports labview active x

[Jaime Rodriguez]

Does anyone have an idea on how to open a crystal reports report from labview? I am working on an application where test measurement data is stored from labview in a SQL database and I need to open several crystal reports from the same labview app. I have labview 8.5 and crystal 8.5.

Thanks in advance

[Jaime Rodriguez]

Any ideas????

[Yamaeda · Accepted solution]

If CR has registered an activeX i s'pose you can do it like i did with Acrobat.

Place an activeX container on front panel, link it to CR's activeX.

 Place Invoke Nodes and use what functions are needed.

I assume you'll need some Load file, view/render, Close.

I hope that helps.

/Y

[Jaime Rodriguez]

Thanks a million that is exactly what I did... Add an ActiveX container in the front panel and add Crystal Reports Control to it, then play around with the property and invoke nodes.

Thanks

[bluwkd]

Question: How did you convert a path e.g. c:\test.rpt to a suitable variant for ReportSource?

Thanks.

[Jaime Rodriguez]

You can use the variant to data function and convert it to any data type... However, I used the Crystal Reports Control ocx not the crystal reports viewer.... This one has a string input for the report path..

[goldengate007]

I am trying to do something similar with lab view and crystal report but I am not familiar with activex. is it possible to have an example of how you did your code to control the report generation, that would be highly appreciated, Thank!

[DigDoug]

Try this example that ships with LabVIEW to get you started with ActiveX. In LabVIEW go to help > Find Examples. Then in NI Example Finder browse to Communicating with External Applications > ActiveX > General > ActiveX Event Callback.vi