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Ripplestone Release 2.9.9 - Summary

By Brenda

Overview

With version 2.9.9, Ripplestone continues to improve the user experience with changes to the home page that make it easier for users to navigate and find the Crystal Reports and Office Documents that they use most often. For the administrator we have added many new features that allow them...

03.05.10 12:55 PM - Comment(s)

Converting Numbers to Dates in Crystal Reports

By Brenda

While working with a Ripplestone client today that had a Crystal Reports report that had data that was a date but the database stored the date as a number in the format YYYYMMDD (20090924 for example).  They wanted the date to be displayed in Ripplestone as MM/DD/YYYY (09/24/2009).

In their copy of C...
24.09.09 05:39 PM - Comment(s)

Running Ripplestone on Vista and Windows Server 2008

By Brenda

I was working with a Ripplestone client to get the software installed on a Vista PC and had a do a few things different than if this was XP Pro or Windows Server 2003.  The main differences were that Vista and Windows Server 2008 use IIS 7 and the .NET framework 1.1 is not installed by default.

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16.06.09 06:34 AM - Comment(s)

Using Wildcard Parameters with Crystal Reports and Ripplestone

By Brenda

While working on the next version of Ripplestone, a client had asked about if and how Ripplestone will handle wildcard parameters in a Crystal Report.  I had not used wildcard parameters for a while, so I decided to dig in and build some reports with wildcard parameters and see how they wo...

16.06.09 06:34 AM - Comment(s)

Truncating Fields in the Crystal Reports Web Viewer

By Brenda

The Problem

There are times when building a Crystal Report that you want a field to be short and if the data is too long for the field for it to be truncated.  This works fine when developing the report in the Crystal Reports Designer, but when you publish the report to Ripplestone and run the...

16.06.09 06:34 AM - Comment(s)