Crystal Reports for Eclipse Developer Guide

Customizing the Crystal Reports designer

You can customize the Crystal Reports designer by adding or removing plug-ins from the Eclipse plugins directory. The Crystal Reports designer provides extension points that enable you to expand the existing Crystal Reports functionality and create customized versions of features. By using extension points, your customized features integrate seamlessly with the Crystal Reports designer.
You can use extension points to customize the designer in the following ways:
  • Create new report wizards that produce customized reports.
    For example, a wizard that creates a report that contains the company logo.
  • Drag and drop custom objects on to a report.
    For example, drag a custom object on to a report automatically convert it to the corresponding report objects.
  • Add new pages to the report designer.
    For example, display a view of the custom objects in the report.
  • Open reports from a custom location, or save reports to a custom location.
    For example, an online repository.
  • Intercept the page change event.
    For example, update a custom page when the user switches to it.
  • Intercept the browse data event.
    For example, populate a datasource when the user browses data.
You should be familiar with creating Eclipse plug-ins and using extension points to follow the instructions in this lesson. Refer to the Eclipse documentation on plug-ins and extension points for more information.



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