A common report request is the ability to add a watermark to
a report indicating that it is a draft. This example will show you how to
accomplish this. In order to create the watermark, create a new header section,
add a text object for the watermark and select the “Underlay Following
Sections” option. This allows for new header to be above the rest of the
sections of the report.
Figure 14: The Section Expert
Figure 15: The watermark in the designer
The text object that was added has a silver 72 point font
set, font spacing of 80 and the text turned 90 degrees. The text rotation
option is found off the common tab in the Section Expert.
Figure 16: Fulfillment report with draft watermark
Don't forget that you can suppress sections in Crystal
Reports via code if you would like to provide an option to print the report
without the watermark. Suppressing sections through code is out of scope of this
document.
