Crystal Reports  

Crystal Reports ActiveX Designer

When creating a report, you do most of the report design work in the Crystal Reports ActiveX Designer. The designer is divided into labeled report sections. You can place report objects, such as database, formula, parameter, and running total fields, in the section you would like them to appear.

The Crystal Reports ActiveX Designer provides a very efficient environment for designing a report because, even though you are working with database data, you are working in a design environment where the data does not need to be refreshed whenever you make changes to the report. When you place a field on the report, the Crystal Reports ActiveX Designer uses a frame to identify the field on the tab, rather than retrieving the data. Thus, you can add and delete fields and other objects, move them around, and set up complex formulas, without having to wait for the data to be refreshed.

See Also

Report Section Overview | Field Explorer | Accessing and Adding Data