Blog tagged as Ripplestone

Printer Setting for Crystal Reports and Ripplestone

By Brenda

When publishing a Crystal report to Ripplestone, it helps to change the printer settings for the report to use the No Printer option.

When you create a new Crystal Report you normally set the report to print on a local printer.  While the report will run great for this printer it might not run...

19.11.10 03:02 PM - Comment(s)

Ripplestone Release 2.9.10

By Brenda

With Ripplestone version 2.9.10 we have concentrated on improving the Report Parameters page and the Scheduler.  These two are some of the most used sections of Ripplestone and benefit the most of getting new features

Report Parameters

  • Changed the Format for Date Ranges - When a report par...
20.09.10 11:13 AM - Comment(s)

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)

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)