SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

1484316 - How to display documents converted to Binary and stored in SQL Server 2000 in a Crystal Report?

Symptom

  • It is possible to insert a JPG file into Crystal Reports
  • How to insert a binary file

Resolution

A BLOB field is a large binary object. It represents an OLE object or a bitmap of some form. You can only associate a BlobFieldObject object with a DBField object.
That is, a BlobFieldObject object can only be used to represent data from a database. The size limit on BlobFieldObject objects is 4 GB.

  • If the bitmap is a database field, it should display like a picture image
  • Note that only the 1st page of the document will display
  • For more information on adding fields to Crystal Reports, see the RAS Samples wiki

Keywords

KBA , BI-DEV-NET-SDK , .NET SDK / COM SDK , How To

Product

Crystal Reports 2008 V1 ; SAP Crystal Reports XI R2