Operation Manual

Printing, Exporting, and Viewing Reports
Viewing reports
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object to one or more destination objects. When you have multiple destination
objects, they must all reside in the same report section.
The Report Part Drilldown option does not affect the DHTML page viewers
since the option emulates the default Crystal Reports behavior for drill down
(which the page viewers already support). Page viewers, however, do not
limit which objects are displayed—they always show all report objects.
Note: Use the Report Part Drilldown option only to navigate between objects
in the same report.
Because the Report Part Viewer shows only destination objects, you must
define Initial Report Part Settings (that is, a default home object) for a report
before your Report Part Drilldown hyperlinks can work. A report’s Initial
Report Part Settings define the object that appears first in the Report Part
Viewer. Think of this object as the place you’ll begin your path of drill-down
hyperlinks from.
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To define Initial Report Part Settings
1. Open the report whose default home object you want to define.
2. Right-click the object you want to set as the default home object and
select Copy from its shortcut menu.
3. On the File menu, click Report Options.
4. In the Initial Report Part Settings area of the Report Options dialog box,
click Paste Link.
The program pastes the name and data context of the report object you
selected as your home object into the appropriate fields.
Tip: For more information about data contexts, see “Data context
formats” on page 407.
Include another object from the same section of the report by entering a
semi-colon (;) and typing the name of the object.
5. Click OK.
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To create a Report Part Drilldown hyperlink
Note: Before you begin this procedure, be sure to read “Setting up
navigation” on page 398 to acquaint yourself with the limitations of creating
this type of hyperlink.
1. Open a report and select the intended destination object; then click the
Format button on the Expert Tools toolbar.
Tip: You can also do this by selecting Format Field from the Format menu.
2. In the Format Editor, click the Hyperlink tab.
3. In the DHTML Viewer Only area, select Report Part Drilldown.