Symptom
- Embedded preview window for Crystal Reports in Visual Studio.
- Parameter panel is missing in the Crystal Report preview window.
Environment
- Crystal Reports 2008
- Visual Studio 2003, 2005, 2008, and 2010
Reproducing the Issue
- Open a Visual Studio project that contains a Crystal Report (.rpt).
- Add a parameter to the report.
- In the menu bar, go to Crystal Reports > Preview Report.
- You will be prompted for your parameter(s).
- No parameter panel is available. Only the Group Tree.
Cause
- The preview feature in Visual Studio uses the older COM based ActiveX viewer to show the report.
- The ActiveX viewer was never updated to support the new parameter panel.
Resolution
- The parameter panel is supported with the .NET Windows and web form viewers - CrystalReportViewer.
- At this time there are no plans to update the ActiveX viewer used in the Visual Studio IDE to support the parameter panel.
Keywords
KBA , BI-DEV-NET , BI Software Development Kits (SDKs) - .NET or Other , Product Enhancement
Product
Crystal Reports 2008 V1 ; SAP Crystal Reports 2011 ; SAP Crystal Reports, developer version for Microsoft Visual Studio ; SAP Crystal Reports, version for Visual Studio .NET 2005 ; SAP Crystal Reports, version for Visual Studio .NET 2008 ; SAP Crystal Reports, version for Visual Studio .NET 9.1