A look at SAP Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010
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by Vince Varallo
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Using the New Sorting Control

A great new feature in SAP Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010 is the dynamic sorting control.  This allows user to change the sort order of the report while they are viewing it in the report viewer.  There are up and down arrows placed next to the column headers that the user can click on to sort ascending or descending.  This is a feature that has been a long time coming in my opinion.  Here are the steps to show the sorting control in your report.

1.    Right click on you project in the Solution Explorer and select Add New Item… from the pop-up menu.

2.    Select Crystal Reports from the list of templates and rename the file EmployeeList.rpt.  Click the OK button.

3.    The Crystal Report Gallery dialog box will appear.  Select "As a Blank Report" and click the OK button.

4.    A blank Crystal Report should appear in the designer.  Now you need to tell the report what database to connect to so you can design the report.  In the Field Explorer window you should see the Database Fields node.  Right click on this node and select Database Expert…

5.    The Database Expert dialog box should appear.  Under the Available Data Sources list you should see the "Create New Connection" node.  Click the plus sign next to this node.

6.    Click the plus sign next to OLE DB (ADO).  The OLE DB (ADO) dialog box should appear.  Select "Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server" from the list and click the Next button.

7.    Enter the Server name, User ID, Password, and select the AdventureWorks database from the list.  Click the Finish button.  If you entered all the correct information the dialog box should close.  If you get an error fix your settings and click the Finish button again.

8.    You should see the AdventureWorks database listed under the OLE DB (ADO) connections.  Click the plus sign next to the database name. 

9.    Click the plus sign next to the Person schema and then click the plus sign next to tables.  This should list all the tables in the Person schema.

10. Hold down the Ctrl button and left click on the Address, Contact, and StateProvince tables.  Click the > arrow button to move these into the list of Selected tables.

11. Expand the Human Resources schema and expand the tables under it.  Move the Employee and the EmployeeAddress tables to the list of selected tables.

12. Click the OK button.  The Links dialog should appear.  This lets you define the joins between the tables.  The links should be defined as shown in the following diagram.

13. Click the OK button again.

14. The Database Fields node in the Field Explorer should now have a plus sign next to it.  Click the plus sign to view the tables and then click the plus sign next to the Contact table to view the fields available for the report.

15. Drag the Last Name field to the details section of the report.

16. Drag the Address.City, StateProvince.StateProvinceCode, and Employee.HireDate to the details section.

17. Now you must define the sorting within the report.  From the main menu select Crystal ReportsàReportàRecord Sort Expert…. 

18. Move all 4 fields to the Sort Fields list and click the OK button.

19. Right click on the LastName textbox in the Page Header section.  Select Bind Sort Control… from the pop-up menu.

20. Choose the Contact.LastName field and click the OK button.  Do the same for the other three fields.

21. Save your report.

22. Now you need to add a page to view the report.  Right click on the project in the Solution Explorer and select Add New Item… from the pop-up menu.

23. Choose WebForm from the list of templates and change the name to Viewer.aspx.  Click the Add button.

24. Drag the CrystalReportViewer control from the toolbox to the web form.

25. Open the code behind page and add the following using statements.

using CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine;
using CrystalDecisions.Shared;

26. Add the following code:

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{        
    ReportDocument report = new ReportDocument();
    report.Load(Server.MapPath("EmployeeList.rpt"));
 
    SetTableLocation(report.Database.Tables);
 
    CrystalReportViewer1.ReportSource = report;             
}
 
private void SetTableLocation(Tables tables)
{
    ConnectionInfo connectionInfo = new ConnectionInfo();
 
    connectionInfo.ServerName = "(local)";
    connectionInfo.DatabaseName = "AdventureWorks";
    connectionInfo.UserID = "aspalliance";
    connectionInfo.Password = "aspalliance";
 
    foreach (CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.Table table in tables)
    {
        TableLogOnInfo tableLogOnInfo = table.LogOnInfo;
        tableLogOnInfo.ConnectionInfo = connectionInfo;
        table.ApplyLogOnInfo(tableLogOnInfo);
    }
}

27. This code will open the report and bind it to the viewer control.  Be sure you change the ServerName, UserID, and Password in the SetTableLocation method.

28. Set this page as the startup page and run your project.  You should see two arrows next to each column header.

Clicking on the up arrow will sort the report ascending by that column.  Click the down arrow sorts descending.


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User Comments

Title: Need another sample   
Name: Matt Slay
Date: 2010-07-21 5:29:44 AM
Comment:
Nice intro showing how it all from within CR, but I'd like to see a sample where I had data from a LINQ query (EF or Linq To Sql) or even DataTables, where the querying and filtering happens in code inside my DAL, and then how that data can be passed into the report.

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