Question

We are trying to create Crystal Report but have a problem with page template creation.
Report looks like this:
It should be “stamp” in the right bottom corner of page. First page stamp looks little different from other pages stamp.

At the left part of page on the left margin two objects are placed. Both of them oriented vertically and should work as header and footer (should be shown on every page) but take more room than required for usual header and footer. In this case we can’t use usual header and footer to place these objects.

Tables on pages should work as “background” because even 1 record on page should show 20-row table (with first row filled in this example)

It would be great if we have something like “left running title” but we can’t see such feature in CR.

I attached couple images to show how the report should look (sorry, i can’t post images here because have no enough reputation points):

First Page Second Page

Could you please say how such report template can be created? We have no skilled CR developer in our company and have no idea which way of report creation can be used 🙁
We also agree to use another report engine if it is free and can work with .NET applications

Thanks for help
Dmitry

Answer 1

You can use underlay property of the sections to get the desired result. You can use the page header and page footer for putting the details and for page-header, set the underlay property to TRUE and for the footer, set the property of the detail section (I presume, you have a single detail section in the report) to TRUE. This will make the details of the header and footer display beneath the detail section.