Operation Manual

What’s New in Crystal Reports XI
Expanded application-development capabilities
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Report Designer Component (RDC)
The new features in version XI of the RDC are primarily focused on format
compatibility with reports created in Crystal Reports XI. This focus includes
maintaining compatibility with applications created in previous versions of the
RDC.
New APIs
• You can now retrieve the fully qualified database table name for a Table
item in a report.
Enhanced deployment options
• The RDC merge modules are now automatically installed to Program
Files\Common Files\Merge Modules
.
• The merge modules have been enhanced to support recent versions of
InstallShield.
• Enhanced configurable deployment options allow full control over
deployed database and exporting DLLs.
Improved ActiveX viewer
• The new exporting dialog box supports the editable RTF format.
• Page drawing performance has been dramatically improved in many
scenarios through caching of the rendered output.
• The visual quality of output and printing has been improved to match the
Crystal Reports preview tab.
• Objects displayed in the ActiveX viewer can be highlighted individually or
in groups and then copied and pasted to applications such as Microsoft
Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Page navigation now supports the page-up and page-down keys.
• Printing now supports multiple page ranges from the print dialog box.
Crystal Reports .NET
Crystal Reports .NET contains many new features. Notable among these is
dynamic prompting and cascading lists of values, an editable RTF export
format, single-sign on support, and dynamic image locations. Backward
compatibility continues to be a critical feature—no APIs or major features
were removed from this release when compared with version 10.