Desktop intelligence users guide reporting techniques and formatting desktop intelligence xi release 2 windows ewbor. You can create more than one crosstab per report, if you wish. During a number of recent crystal reports xi training sessions, i have been repeatedly asked how do i create a topn cross tab report. Crystal report percentage difference between 2 columns in crosstab. Crystal decisions, web intelligence, xcelsius, and other. Crosstabs make it so much easier, and the reports are easy to read as well. Configuring report page and margin properties fundamentals of. When i export the report to excel, which is what the client will receive.
How to display percentage of each row in crystal report. The crosstab function in crystal is not giving me the desired results or formatting. Getting data into the cross tab, formatting, and some more advanced cross tab features. To set your report margins to meet exact specifications, follow these steps. Crystal has a very nice crosstab expert that is excellent for many assignments. Desktop intelligence users guide reporting techniques and formatting 11 examples. However, you often need to specify an item in the farright column. Customizing crosstab appearance crystal reports 10. Using the olap report creation wizard and olap expert. Nov 14, 2012 following article guides you to apply a custom sorting functionality to a crystal report crosstab. The alias for formulas is a name you have specified for a level of dimension in an olap grid or a crosst ab. However, this feature should be handled carefully, because selecting a style. You can control how crystal reports formats the crosstab across multiple pages with the options in the customize style tab.
I have 2 distinctly separate crosstabs that are side by side in crystal. The experts guide to crosstabs in crystal reports ken hamady. Learn how to format your crystal reports crosstab as a whole and also how to change the appearance of its individual elements. Visit us at to view our full catalog of interactive sap businessobjects bi suite tutorials. Using advanced crosstab features using crosstabs for. I have a crystal report cross tab report which have 5 static columns and the rest are cross tab columns.
Too much whitespace between crosstab groups summary. For beginners workbook, is a selfpaced visual guide to learning crystal reports and is written from the. Reporting is one of the major tasks in any enterprise and reporting software occupies a prominent position in enterprise software suite. It looks like using record processing time whileprintingrecords, whilereadingrecords, etc might be the way to go, but i am not quite grasping how to use that to get it to work in the cross tab. Creating a manual crosstab report sage abra hrms tips. In fact, a crosstab is just an object that resides in an existing report section. Even when you choose the crosstab wizard from the reports gallery, crystal reports just creates a crosstab object and puts it in the report header. Amir, it is sad but microsoft has stopped support on. Following illustration shows before applying the sorting functionality. Jul 10, 2015 using crosstab or pivot in an sp for crystal reports i have a stored procedure for a report that feeds a crystal report.
Hopefully you are all making easy money out there today. How to display percentage of each row in crystal report crosstab. Manual cross tab dynamic crystal report on november 27, 2014 november 28, 2014 by seek weng in programming lately im been involve in a lot of crystal reports and one of them is a crosstab dynamic report which will grow vertically and horizontally. These styles can be selected in the crosstab expert tab style. All cells of a crosstab, with the exception of the summary cells, must have the same width. Following article guides you to apply a custom sorting functionality to a crystal report crosstab. Browse other questions tagged crystal reports crosstab or ask your own question. For more information, visit the business objects homepage. Seagate, seagate software, crystal reports, crystal enterprise, crystal analysis. Hi guys, how do we control the cell margins in a cross tab report. Trademarks business objects, the business objects logo, crystal reports, and crystal enterprise are. When i place page n of m special field in the report it only shows the last page count for the reports. How to introduce row numbers in the cross tab jaspersoft.
For beginners workbook, is a selfpaced visual guide to learning crystal reports and is written from the perspective that the reader has not created a report before or has not used crystal reports. Using and creating crosstabs in crystal reports juri urbainczyk 27. Learn how to summarize data within a crosstab report so you can see subtotals for each of those elements. Cross tab expert customize style tab and click format grid lines button located at the bottom right corner of the crosstab expert dialog box just above ok,cancel and help. Crystal reports for enterprise sap businessobjects 4. That is, if the crosstab has columns that exceed the element width and rows break into several chunks, you will see the same row number for the layout rows that make up a single logical row. Manual cross tab reports using sap crystal reports for enterprise. Along with crystal reports come various different styles for crosstabs.
With crystal reports, margins can either be set to use specific manually set margin definitions or can be selected to automatically adjust to the report margins. Solved group selection doesnt work in crosstab crystal. Find answers to crystal reports messy export to excel from the. How do i create a topn cross tab report in crystal reports xi. When you create a crosstab you relate each individual data point to at least two criteria, such as the state where a customer resides and the product that they bought. Change the formatting of a crosstab in crystal reports, you can format a crosstab to make it easier to read or to show data in a more meaningful way. By default, objects in crystal reports do not overwrite a section. This solution will work only first page but what about the second page. For example, if a column in the crosstab isn t wide enough to show its contents, the contents will just be. Understanding crosstab reports crystal reports book. When crystal reports prints the crosstab on paper, however, it must add page breaks if the crosstab exceeds the width of the printed page.
Oct 19, 2006 reporting is one of the major tasks in any enterprise and reporting software occupies a prominent position in enterprise software suite. However, there are times when you want a particular feature that is not available through the expert. Only work around that i know of would be to create a manual crosstab and then you can format the fields to use right to left layout. Jun 20, 2012 im trying to show the page numbers for crosstab reports that ive built. The complete reference,2004, isbn b005di80va, by peck g. Custom sorting for crystal report crosstab codeproject. The grid value functions in crystal reports are very powerful in customizing the content or format of a crosstab. Using top n with crosstabs reports crystal reports xi. Crosstab lines disappears after exporting a report from crystal reports to ms excel dataonly format. Find answers to crystal reports messy export to excel from the expert community at experts exchange.
Solution creating a topn cross tab report, is relatively easy to do, if not that obvious. How do you reduce the cell padding in a cell on a cross tab. Summary crosstabs are integral reporting tools for any bi needs. Jul, 2011 sorry i should have realized sooner this is likely a limitation in the crosstab engine. Its a pretty common scenerio so ill be gob smacked if crystal cant accommodate this. Crystal reports isnt there a way to adjust padding in a.
Crosstab reports are a powerful way to create summaries of data in a spreadsheet style format. How to display all field values on a single line in crystal reports. Dear friends please help me out i have a crystal report cross tab report which have 5 static columns and the rest are cross tab columns. Crystal report producing extra blank page after every page. Aug 21, 2012 the crosstab reports on all document dates, ignoring the max of date per client group selection. Creating a crosstab report in visual studio 2005 using.
The effect of this on a single line of text in crystal reports is that the single line of text will push the text down from the top, effectively centering the text vertically within the object. Crosstab grandtotal as average and not total when you create the report, on the crosstab screen where you select the items to be placed in rows, columns, and summary fields, whatever you place in the summary fields will default to sum. I have a problem of too much white space occurring between repeating crosstabs grouped by columns of 4 it makes the report look ugly and the client is complaining about wasted paper. Oct 09, 2012 this document explains a way to create manual cross tab reports using sap crystal reports for enterprise. Join author curt frye as he shows the essentials you need to get started. We are moving from binary file based reporting to using an sp then displaying in crystal. Adjusting margin sizes is one way to customize the overall appearance of your finished report. Desktop intelligence users guide reporting techniques and. How to increase height and width of crosstab cell in. Hi friends i want your help in how to change the direction of the crosstab crystal report to make it suitable for righttoleft languages like arabic. Crystal reportsmanual crosstab hi all, i am trying to create manual crosstab in crystal reports and have an issue as i haven worked much with crystal.
Manual cross tab dynamic crystal report web application. In this tutorial, you will format a crosstab on a crystal report. In keeping with the ability of crystal reports to create publicationquality reports, you have numerous options available to help you improve the appearance of your crosstab reports. The variable counts logical crosstab rows and not layout rows. For example, how to set cell margins at 2px only or 3px only in a report. It shows data in a compact format, which makes it easier to understand and s.
Crosstab grandtotal as average and not total when you create the report, on the crosstab screen where you select the items to be placed in rows, columns, and summary fields, whatever you place in the summary fields will default to sum change the operator to average there. I think that its possible that there is an alternate, however i managed to do this only with the approach that i want to describe in this short article. If you are meaning the white space in each cell, then the usual approach is to find the longest value, and manually resize the cell. In crystal reports, create a report off any data source. I have already checked the can grow property to true for individual cells but have no change. Find answers to cross tab cell margins from the expert community at experts. They generate summary data in a grid where the rows and. If you have been looking for a beginners book that has a lot of easy to understand, stepbystep instructions and screen shots that show you how to complete and master crystal reports xi design techniques correctly, this is the book for you. All needed dimension levels have to be defined from the beginning by the developers. The effect of this on a single line of text in crystal reports is that the. Hi all ive run into this every time i use the crosstab.
Crystal reports messy export to excel solutions experts. A crystal report crosstab does not allow drilling into deeper dimension levels. Crystal report percentage difference between 2 columns in. In this article i want to share with you the information about how to introduce row numbers in the cross tab component. Many times beginning crystal reports authors overlook the powerful feature of cross tabs. Is it possible to order the columns of a crosstab report in a particular order. Ill cover the following topics in the code samples below. If you are just wanting to create columns, under sections expert, for the details section, you can tell crystal you want to split the detail section into columns. The final design onf this report should look like a sample on the picture below. Oct 23, 2006 these reports will work in v9 of crystal reports and above. So in scenarios where cross tab reports with such features are required, we can go for manual cross tab reports. Dj, you are correct for row header we put text object.
This document explains a way to create manual cross tab reports using sap crystal reports for enterprise. Very poor pdf output in reporting reporting telerik forums. I know that we can either show or hide cell margins. I put my cross tab in report footer and got the solution but when i convert it to ms word its showing only first page the rest are unable to export. How to increase height and width of crosstab cells in crystal report dynamically according to text size. Our workbook is for the beginner and intermediate user. Also, seeing as thought the pdfs i export from crystal reports display correctly, the problem would still seem to be with the telerik reports pdf export. Below image shows wrong order of month on column headers. How to move up 2nd page margin to top in crystal report cross tab. Crystal reports provides two easy ways to create reports against olap data sources. Find answers to cross tab cell margins from the expert community at experts exchange. We cover three major areas with cross tabs in this article. Adding header for crystal report crosstab codeproject.
Create a crosstab report with two fields in row and two fields. If you by chance are referring to values being indented in rows or columns, go to the topleft blank cell of the crosstab, rightclick on it, select crosstab expert, click on the third tab customize style, and look in the lowerleft corner in the grid options. I have a stored procedure for a report that feeds a crystal report. Sap crystal reports 2011 users guide sap help portal. At the moment i am trying to figure out if there is a way to manually adjust the padding of a cell in a cross tab refer to the image below. Crystal reports helps you to import and analyze data from a variety of places, including excel, access, groupware applications like lotus notes, html and xml files, sap, and more. Export the report to msexcel dataonly in ms excel, open the exported document, and notice the gridlines of the rows and columns of the crosstab, are not visible. Use a copy of the crosstab to be used as the crosstab columns create a section above the current crosstab. Hope you have some basic knowledge in creating a basic crystal report. Rendering issues with crosstab vertical lines and line. A workaround will be to use a copy of the crosstab to display the column headers, and then suppress the column headers of the orginal crosstab. Create a crosstab report with two fields in row and two fields in column.
Using crosstab or pivot in an sp for crystal reports sql. The basic crosstab you create in crystal reports is just that. If i export using the microsoft excel 972003 it places the cross tabs above one another instead of s. Feb 15, 2012 before i learned about crosstabs, my reports looked messy, they were a bunch of summary fields and groups. Crystal reports cross tab layout cross tab is used to display the data that is grouped or totaled in two directions.
Solved crystal reports horizontal details spiceworks. Adding summary fields to crosstabs lets you present your data efficiently. Configuring report page and margin properties crystal. There are multitudes of reporting software vendors. Using crosstab or pivot in an sp for crystal reports. For example, suppose you wanted cells with a value greater than a certain amount to be shaded, or a different color. If show cell margins is unchecked then padding issue comes now, how to set padding for particular cell. Creating a manual crosstab report sage abra hrms tips and. Before i learned about crosstabs, my reports looked messy, they were a bunch of summary fields and groups. Rendering issues with crosstab vertical lines and line spacing when exporting to pdf. As introduced in chapter 1, creating and designing basic reports, crystal provides several report wizards to step you through the creation of some popular types of reportsone of those is olap. I need to take the percentage between the 2 values. Normal cross tab reports created from cross tab expert lack some features like alerts, sort, drill down etc. Desktop intelligence users guide reporting techniques and formatting desktop intelligence xi release 2.
Now, lets modify our pivot grid so we have two fields displayed in the rows and. Nov 27, 2014 manual cross tab dynamic crystal report on november 27, 2014 november 28, 2014 by seek weng in programming lately im been involve in a lot of crystal reports and one of them is a crosstab dynamic report which will grow vertically and horizontally. Verify your account to enable it peers to see that you are a professional. No stress tech guide to crystal reports xi for beginners. Hello, im trying to show the page numbers for crosstab reports that ive built. At the moment i am trying to figure out if there is a way to manually adjust the padding. Is there a way or is there something specific i need to do in order to have the page number for each page to. Is there a way to control the cell margins in crosstab reports. Business objects and the business objects logo, businessobjects, crystal reports. Is there a way or is there something specific i need to do in order to have the page number for each page to be displayed in the reports. With all this being said, i investigated the problem futher and it appears that however telerik reports exports its pdf, it is not compatable with older versions of adobe. From the report menu, select the group sort expert option. Manual cross tab reports using sap crystal reports for.
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