Is welcome any experience with this tool, How to use BO with Crystal Reports.

It will be the same with Crystal as it would with any other reporting environment.  You will want to use the Custom BBS classes.  For more information on this, please load the StrataFlix sample as this shows you exactly how to create BOs and Custom BBS classes for reports.  Also, you can refer to the docs in regards to the Custom BBS class as well.

Hi Pedro,

While not addressing your specific question I can say we successfully use BO's with Crystal Reports. We went through the process of looking at Sharp Shooter and the DevExpress report writer (we use DevExpress for our UI) and decided to stay with Crystal Reports because it was the only tool of the three that gave us the functionality we needed in Cross Tab (Pivot) reports.

Cheers, Peter

Chess



I'm glad to here that, well my question is in this way :



1.- We use crystal in all environments, like VFP, VB, Xbase++... and use the designer to make reports, in this tool we have the database, tables and fields for drag into report designer, but now with StrataFrame we had not found the way to do this.



2.- I had used the BBS that told me Trent, in others controls like grids .. an else .. it go well but in crystal I don't find this object to put it into report.



I will appreciate your help, this is very important for us



Thanks SF

You need to use the Custom BBS not just the BBS.  This was released in 1.6.6 and allows you to create reporting BOs as well as wrap any BO without the need for dropping on a BBS.  I think I have already mentioned this on another post, but if you would download and install the StrataFlix sample it will show you exactly how to do this.

do you have a video .. how to create a Custom Business Binding Source ?



Because when I finish to make .. I can't drag and drop into crystal reports design.



Thanks in advanced

Hi Pedro.

This post might help you:

http://forum.strataframe.net/FindPost19805.aspx

Yep! Just add that toolbox attribute as Ivan pointed out and you should be able drag it in from your toolbox .

Hi Dustin,

I am working on creating reports, and have been using the "SF Custom Business Binding Source" template, and manually adding the toolbox attribute, is there a configuration somewhere which will add this attribute by default?

By the way, thanks a lot to Ivan and the StrataFlix sample which has helped me a lot in getting started with .NET reporting, specially the Report Sharp-Shooter, and the generic logic in StrataFlix to generate the reports, very clever.

Edhy Rijo

Hey Edhy.

You are most welcome!