Crystal Reports putting in maps

[James Patron Bell]

dear List users

in our office we are developing the use of Crystal Reports for regular
reports. Would any one be able to help as every time we hit the Map
Expert button we get mapping dlls can not be found.

Any one able to help?

James

[John Reiner]

Hi there.

In my office we are also trying to develop a crystal reports regular
tool and also got the same error... mapping dlls can not be found.

John.

[Rob Schneider - Aurchem Exploration]

Product: MapInfo
Version: 7.0
Platform: Not Platform Related
Category: Crystal Reports

Summary:
"Couldn't load mapping dlls" when trying to insert map in Crystal Reports.

Question:
Created a Crystal Report through MapInfo Professional by going to Tools>Crystal Reports>New Report. Once the report has been formatted as desired, choose Insert>Map to try and add the MapInfo map window to the report. The following error is received:

"Couldn't load mapping dlls."



What causes this error and how can the MapInfo map window be added to the Crystal Report that was created?

Answer:
According to the Crystal Reports Help, this error is encountered if the mapping component of Crystal Reports has not been installed.

MapInfo Professional comes with the standard version of Crystal Reports, which does not include the mapping component (which is MapInfo MapX).

If the mapping component was installed, Insert>Map would not have the ability to add the MapInfo map window to the report anyway. Crystal Reports actually has its own mapping capabilities (it's using MapInfo MapX) and would provide steps for creating something similar to a thematic map.

To add the MapInfo map window, choose File>Save Window As in MapInfo Professional and save the map window as any of the raster formats (.BMP, .JPG, .PNG, .TIF). Then, choose Insert>Picture in Crystal Reports.

John Reiner wrote:

Hi there.

In my office we are also trying to develop a crystal reports regular
tool and also got the same error... mapping dlls can not be found.

John.
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[James Patron Bell]

Many thanks for getting back about this. The work about suggested is
what we have implemented.

Next question:

We have created the report and set it up with the format required and
some graphs and cross-tab tables in the header. Now when we reopen the
report with a diffrent set of data (saved in the same file name) we
can't get the report to display the new data, we have used the refresh
option. If a new report must be created every time then it makes this
almost more work than necessery due to time. So does any one have any
ideas about refreshing the data?

James

[Martin Hodder]

Hi James,

I think if you save the report with File > "Save Data with report" unticked

Then I think it read the data each time the report is opened

There is also a tick box under options to not save data with report

Regards

Martin Hodder
Higher Mapping Solutions
www.highermappingsolutions.com