
This demonstration report is to work with SQL Server 2005 database. Once you click OK button, system gives a window to select the connection type as shown below. Then you need to create the database connection to access tables within the database. Keep the Standard report format and click OK button. Once you click the OK button, you will get a welcome window as shown by the following figure. Here I have given “DiffFileFormatRpt.rpt”. When you select crystal report, give a meaningful name to the report.

Then right click the project and select Add New Item from the bar.Select Crystal Report from the templates list window. Here I have used Visual Studio since I prefer that.įirst open Visual studio 2008 or 2005 and create new web project called “ExportReportToDiffFileFormat”. The first way is we can use the crystal report and second one is we can use the Visual studio. Note: The database design is only for demonstration purpose. Let us design a report to this table, get ‘House owners’ summary report’ which is using date parameter to process the report. There are eight columns in the “HouseOwnerInfo. The created database name is “HouseRental” with “HouseOwnerInfo” table. Here I have designed a small database for this demonstration. Crystal report also has feature to export report to various file formats.īefore start to design a report, you need a database which is going to use by report. As I mentioned my earlier articles reporting is most important, may be users need reports in different file types.

CRYSTAL REPORT FILE EXTENSION HOW TO
The purpose of this article is to illustrate how to export reports different files types.
