Question

I have designed a Report in my ASP.NET web site now i need to provide options to export that report in PDF, HTML, and DOC formats, how do i achieve that?

crystal report has one button to do that but when ever i try to save that report its saved as .aspx format as i am viewing it in asp.net web page.

Answer 1

You have to do it by yourself: create a dropdown list with formats you want and a button to make a postback for exporting.

This is an example for the .Net 1.1 / CR9. When making a postback to the following:

1. assign to your report class instance property value MyReport.ExportOptions.ExportDestinationType = CrystalDecisions.Shared.ExportDestinationType.DiskFile;
2. if you want to export to .pdf do the following: MyReport.ExportOptions.ExportFormatType = CrystalDecisions.Shared.ExportFormatType.PortableDocFormat; You can also choose WordForWindows, RichText, Excel, HTML40 and more.

3. Then do the following:

   CrystalDecisions.Shared.DiskFileDestinationOptions fileOptions = new DiskFileDestinationOptions();

   fileOptions.DiskFileName = "someTmpFileName";

   MyReport.DestinationOptions = fileOptions;

   MyReport.Export();

You can find more about ExportOptions class here.

And here is an example for VS 2005 / .Net 2