Question

I’m trying to export a Crystal Report to an HTML file, but when I call the Export method, I immediately get this error:

Source: Crystal Reports ActiveX Designer

Description: Failed to export the report.

I have tried both crEFTHTML40 and crEFTHTML32Standard as export format types – and both result in the same error.

Here is a highly simplified version of what I’m doing:

Dim objCRReport As CRAXDRT.Report [...] objCRReport.ExportOptions.FormatType = 32 'crEFTHTML40 objCRReport.ExportOptions.DestinationType = 1 'crEDTDiskFile objCRReport.ExportOptions.DiskFileName = 'C:\reportInHtmlFormat.html' objCRReport.Export False '<--- 'Failed to export the report' error here 

Please note that I am referencing the ‘Crystal Reports 9 ActiveX Designer Runtime Library’ specifically.

Answer 1

I’m not sure what you have in the [...] section but your code should include a call to open the report with an instance of the CRAXDRT Application.

Dim objCRReport As CRAXDRT.Report  '*********************************** Dim objCRApp As New CRAXDRT.Application  objCRReport = objCRApp.OpenReport('<YOUR REPORT FILENAME>', 1) '***********************************  [...] objCRReport.ExportOptions.FormatType = 32 'crEFTHTML40 objCRReport.ExportOptions.DestinationType = 1 'crEDTDiskFile objCRReport.ExportOptions.DiskFileName = 'C:\reportInHtmlFormat.html' objCRReport.Export False '<--- 'Failed to export the report' error here