changing ordinal position of a field

Does anyone have the idea of how to change the ordinal position of a
field using DDL statements in access 97? I know i'm posting it in
incorrect group, as this is the only active group i've visited till
now.
thanks in advance<rameshsaive@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Does anyone have the idea of how to change the ordinal position of a
> field using DDL statements in access 97? I know i'm posting it in
> incorrect group, as this is the only active group i've visited till
> now.
> thanks in advance
>
I'm not sure what that matters to you. The database stores the data in
whatever order makes the best sense to it. That said, the easy way would
be to do something like:
SELECT col1, col2, col3 -- Use the order that you want the data
displayed in
INTO SomeTempTable
FROM OldTable
DROP OldTabe
SELECT *
INTO NewTable
FROM SomeTempTable
DROP SomeTempTable
Rick Sawtell
MCT, MCSD, MCDBA|||Thanks Rick for your info.
There is no problem with the order of the fields in the database. But
it causing me a hell of a problems in my 100+ reports developed in
crystal reports 8.5.
I've a table named "employee", has a field named "postdesc". Initially
the size of the field "postdesc" is limited to 100 but now it has
increased to 200. Unfortunately, i've dropped the column & recreated
it using DDL Statements.
But this has changed the ordinal position of the field (it has added
the field at the end of the table). Now the reports which depends on
this field is not working properly. i know this is a problem with
crystal reports, but it is very cumbursome to change 100+ reports.
Please help me on this.|||<rameshsaive@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks Rick for your info.
> There is no problem with the order of the fields in the database. But
> it causing me a hell of a problems in my 100+ reports developed in
> crystal reports 8.5.
> I've a table named "employee", has a field named "postdesc". Initially
> the size of the field "postdesc" is limited to 100 but now it has
> increased to 200. Unfortunately, i've dropped the column & recreated
> it using DDL Statements.
> But this has changed the ordinal position of the field (it has added
> the field at the end of the table). Now the reports which depends on
> this field is not working properly. i know this is a problem with
> crystal reports, but it is very cumbursome to change 100+ reports.
> Please help me on this.
>
I understand now..
You should be able to go into Access and open the Table Designer. From
there, you should be able to move the row to where you want it in the list.
If that doesn't work, there is always VBScripting. ;-)
Rick Sawtell|||This will not fix your current problem, but ...
When at all possible use views instead of tables in crystal reports. When
the underlying table changes crystal will be unaffected.
If you change structure of the view (add or remove a field) you will still
need to go into crystal and verify the database though.
Just some general advice to make working with crystal a little bit easier.
<rameshsaive@.gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1140701965.950863.124030@.u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com...
> Thanks Rick for your info.
> There is no problem with the order of the fields in the database. But
> it causing me a hell of a problems in my 100+ reports developed in
> crystal reports 8.5.
> I've a table named "employee", has a field named "postdesc". Initially
> the size of the field "postdesc" is limited to 100 but now it has
> increased to 200. Unfortunately, i've dropped the column & recreated
> it using DDL Statements.
> But this has changed the ordinal position of the field (it has added
> the field at the end of the table). Now the reports which depends on
> this field is not working properly. i know this is a problem with
> crystal reports, but it is very cumbursome to change 100+ reports.
> Please help me on this.
>

Changing font color dynamically in Crystal Reports

I have a windows app which uses the free version of Crystal Reports. The idea is that I should allow the users to choose their own font and colors (for example one might want to see the title green and arial). Do you happen to know how I can do that? I don't even know if it is possible given that there is practically no code behind the reports...

Thank you in advance. :)Add parameters to the report for font and font color. Right click the report field, select "format field", click the font tab and click the formula buttons next to each of the font attributes and add the code to read your parameters to make the select settings|||Can you please give me an example?|||Select {?FontColor} <--This is your parameter field
Case "Red": <-You should have a case stament for each color
crRed
Case "Black":
crBlack
Default:
DefaultAttribute

Here are the default color attributes.
crBlack
crMaroon
crGreen
crOlive
crNavy
crPurple
crTeal
crSilver
crRed
crLime
crYellow
crBlue
crFuchsia
crAqua
crWhite

Do the same for the font replacing the colors with the font names.|||But where do I write this code?|||Right click the report field, select "format field", click the font tab and click the formula buttons next to each of the font attributes and add the code to read your parameters to make the selected settings

As I originally stated above..|||try sample code as mentioned below. You can get access to any object in the report and from code, you can change the object property just like you do using visual studio. Sorry for not answering you stright. But this info will very helpful to you I recon.

Private Sub AdjustCarPicSize(ByVal iHeight As Integer, ByVal iWidth As Integer)
'For Each section As CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.Section In reportDocument.ReportDefinition.Sections
' For Each reportObject As CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportObject In section.ReportObjects
' If reportObject.Kind = ReportObjectKind.SubreportObject Then
' Dim subReport As SubreportObject = CType(reportObject, SubreportObject)
' Dim subDocument As ReportDocument = subReport.OpenSubreport(subReport.SubreportName)
' If (subReport.SubreportName = "CarPic") Then
' For Each section1 As CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.Section In subDocument.ReportDefinition.Sections
' For Each reportObject1 As CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportObject In section1.ReportObjects
' 'Response.Write(reportObject1.Name)
' If (reportObject1.Name = "carpicimage1") Then
' reportObject1.Height = iHeight
' reportObject1.Width = iWidth
' End If

' Next
' Next
' End If

' End If
' Next
'Next
Dim oCarPic As CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportObject = CType(reportDocument.ReportDefinition.Sections("DetailSection6").ReportObjects("Subreport1"), SubreportObject).OpenSubreport("CarPic").ReportDefinition.Sections("ReportHeaderSection2").ReportObjects("carpicimage1")