I would claim that there are "forms" and "report settings".

The report manager shows you "forms" - the actual crystal report design that establishes what your printout for a document looks at.

"Report settings" are what you see at the top of the printing screen when you go to print a document such as a sales order. It is associated with a crystal report and will also save various parameters (printers, sort orders, print comments, paperless office, etc.)

A "form" can be associated with multiple different report settings. For example you may have created a "form" design that is associated with report setting TOM and report setting BOB (this is done by creating a "form" that is associated with "ALL"). They both use the "form" design but may have different printers or number of copies specified in the "report" setting.

A "form" can alternately be associated with a single "report setting".

A "form" can be easily deleted via the report manager, however that does not delete the "report setting" from the lookup pull down on the printing screen :(. Currently to remove a support setting you have to use DFDM.

by: Tom R. | over a year ago | General Enhancements