The Crystal Report Viewer Toolbar
The Crystal Report Viewer Toolbar is a graphical icon at the top of the Crystal Reports application environment, containing various buttons that you can click to activate the most frequently used application commands. Basically, the Crystal Report Viewer Toolbar acts as a shortcut to access the most commonly used functions of the design application, and they can be enabled and disabled to appear at the top of the application area by selecting Toolbars from the View menu, which is located in the upper-most area of the application. But fact is that there is not just one Crystal Report Viewer Toolbar, as there are actually four different types - Standard, Formatting, Insert Tools, Expert Tools. The toolbar give the end user an easy way to open additional reports, and to switch between the ones they have open.
The Standard Crystal Report Viewer Toolbar contains the most commonly used application functions, including New, Open, Save, Print, Preview, Export, Copy, Cut, Paste, and Help. The Formatting Crystal Report Viewer Toolbar contains functions that pertain specifically to modifying object properties with regard to Font, Font Size, Bold, Italics, Underline, Alignment, Currency, and Percentage formats. The Insert Tools toolbar allows for quick access to report-enhancing and advanced features. The items found on this toolbar are consistent with the commands listed under the Insert menu. The fourth toolbar called Expert Tools features functions that allow you to quickly access the main application experts, such as the Database, Group, Select, Section, Formula Workshop, and Highlighting Experts. Users can choose the toolbar they want to use from the Toolbars dialog, which provides for an intuitive way to enable quick and easy access to commonly used application commands during report design.
Have in mind that there are also ToolTips available for the Crystal Report Viewer Toolbar. ToolTips are pop-up descriptions that appear when your cursor rests over any of the toolbar buttons. To view ToolTips on your toolbars, select the Show ToolTips check box from within the Toolbars dialog. ToolTips are enabled by default.
To hide the whole Crystal Report Viewer Toolbar, set the DisplayToolbar property to False. You can also implement your own toolbar with other Web Form controls and program the functions you need using the methods, properties and events of the Web Forms Viewer. Crystal Report Viewer is the best reporting software around but with a good understanding of the Crystal Report Viewer Toolbar, you will make an even better use of this product. 'Crystal Reports' is a popular third party package that is included with Visual Basic (VB). For example, if you don't have Admin rights, you won't be able to install Crystal Report Active X Viewer Control when trying to view reports. There is no fix for this or workaround. To get a sample version, go to crystalreports.com.
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