Re: Crystal Reports and COBOL

Top posting corrected

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 13:54:13 -0400, "Ken Mullins"
<kennethxxpxxxmullins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>"Frederico Fonseca" <real-email-in-msg-spam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:00r6g11ut3pav0r0hgrkk1985eajuv61f4@xxxxxxxxxx
>> On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:27:52 -0400, "Ken Mullins"
>> <kennethxxpxxxmullins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>Anyone out here use Crystal Reports? I have an old 16bit native windows
>>>app
>>>that I developed back in 1995 using MF COBOL...It uses V4 of Crystal
>>>Reports
>>>for printing...
>>>
>>>I'm in the process of converting this app to native 32bit Windows
>>>platforms.
>>>I'm also adding some data elements including graphics...I've updated my V4
>>>Crystal Reports to V9, but do not see that it has the ability to print a
>>>photo based on a file name field...
>>>
>>>Anyone know of a way to do that?
>>>
>>>Each picture to be printed would be a disk file name of the photo (ex:
>>>C:\BCWData\Photos\Sample.jpg)...
>> Look at the examples provided. One of them does exactly what you need
>> (or almost). more specifically "Employee Profile.rpt"
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>The data being passed to CR is currently a standard CSV file and I am
>>>using
>>>their text ODBC driver...Well I was previously, but haven't started
>>>looking
>>>to see if their is a better way in the newer CR yet...
>> There are better ways... if you don't use standard COBOL files.
>>

>In that example, it is a database field defined as a blob...I can't do that
>using CSV files? Only something like SQL server, etc can do that...Correct?
>
>I need the ability to just use the picture disk file name and have that
>print...
you can also do that but it is harder.

And you should really consider moving to another file format as you
will have other benefits


>
>kenmullins
>
>


Frederico Fonseca
ema il: frederico_fonseca at syssoft-int.com
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