Robert Meyer’s Blog

Crystal Reports that contain a cross-tab and a drawing object with the following setting: Repeat on Horizontal Pages, will generate blank pages.

I had a Crystal Report with a cross-tab report and Crystal displayed a blank page in between every virtual page. A line (drawing object) was on the report (for demarcating report data from a report footer).

If you have a Crystal Report that generates mystery blank pages then ask the following questions:

Is this a cross-tab report? And are there any drawing objects like lines on the report?

If so, check each drawing object by right clicking on it and choosing properties and look for a setting called: Repeat on Horizontal Pages. If it’s checked off - the uncheck it and that will probably solve the mystery of your report’s blank pages.

An interesting (interesting? more like frustrating) point is that the blank pages didn’t show up in the Crystal development environment - only when the report was generated as part of my web application.

Crystal is a powerful tool, but poorly documented with some really bizarre behaviors and everyone I know that uses Crystal shares the same frustrations.

I hope my discovery helps someone else out there.

It’s Friday night - after 12.  The kid is asleep.  The wife and I are sitting in the den, the lights are dim and the t.v. is off.  And we both have our laptops open.  She’s reading a novel online and I’m surfing Craigslist and updating my blog.  Guesss how long we’ve been married…

But honestly - after a long week, this is a pretty cool way to start the weekend - easy dinner, some beers and hanging out with the love of my life (my wife - not my computer machine).

yo mama so fat, the recursive function to calculate her mass results in a stack overflow

Well that was easy - Just installed WordPress (which is offered as a free plugin at WebHost4Life.com).  I usually believe in rolling your own code - but sometimes just getting it done is better than being a slave to the process.

Cool - so now I can put up articles more easily.

Cheers - now I’m going to bed.