Hi Craig,

In our previous version we are using CRPE (Crystal 8.5). But our new version is using Crystal 10 through RDC since Automation Server is no longer supported in Crystal 10. In Crystal 8.5 CRPE the refresh button in the preview window dont ask the user to enter new parameter when you click the refresh button. But in the Crystal 10 RDC it always ask to enter new parameter value during refresh.

The intention of refreshing data are the following:
1. The first users already preview the report then the second users also input new entry.
2. The first users click the refresh button without to refresh the data and the expected result should include the new data entered by the second users. We know that we can do it by closing the preview window and run the report again. But the refresh functionality works fine in the Crystal 8.5 Automation Server. Most of our users in the market already used this functionality and we want to implement the refresh button functionality in RDC 10 without asking to enter new parameter value. Our users didnt know what are the correct value need to enter for each parameter sinc the value of the parameter was supplied by the program on the selected option in the Report interface that calls the Crystal Report.

On the Previous Crystal 8.5 we did not do any coding to refresh the report since the refresh button in the preview works fine. The refresh button only visible in the report preview in Crystal 8.5 CRPE if we set the value of the property .HasPrintSetupButton to True(.t.). In RDC 10 we need to set the value of the property EnableRefreshButton to True(.t.) if want it visible in the Preview window.

The problem in RDC 10 when we click the Refresh button it always ask to enter new parameter value in which our users does not know what are the correct value need to enter.

May be there is work around for this or property need to set.


Thanks,


Rene





If you're using the RDC, you're using and automation server. I assume you mean the CRPE.

I'm not sure what you are refreshing. Do you display the report then refresh? Why not just refresh the data, then display the report?


>Hi All,
>
>I have created report using RDC but the refresh button behave differently from automation server.
>When I hit he refresh button the report always ask me to supply the parameter. The worse thing here is that the default value of the parameter was cleared. Our users doesnt know what is the exact value of the parameter and this will cause our report to crash.
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>I have read an article from the business object site on to do a work around for it but it doesnt work. The suggestion there is only to refresh the report but the data. What I mean is that there is a change on the data in the backend and i want the report to refresh the changes using the old parameter value. Below is the link of the site from business objects:
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>http://support.businessobjects.com/library/kbase/articles/c2009106.asp
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>Is anybody there have an idea on to do a work around of this issue?
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>BTW, I'm using SQL Server 2000 as my backend. All of our reports are using stored procedure.
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>TIA,
>
>Rene