Crystal Reports: Special Fields in Subreports

Some report designers really like the special fields like Report Title, File Author and Report Comments.

If your reports are published on Crystal Reports Server or Business Objects Enterprise, then these fields are displayed on the Web page where the report is listed and can provide useful information to users running your report.

But what if your report has subreports? Inside the subreport you can also display these special fields.

Our testing discovered that the only one of these that displays a value is "Report Title". You will also discover that when you are editing the subreport, the File menu item to edit any summary information (including Report Title) is disabled.

You need to use "Format Subreport" if you want to change the Subreport Report Title. On the subreport tab you can change the "Subreport Name" and this will change what is displayed in the report title special field inside the subreport.

Thanks to Mike on a recent training course for helping us work this one out.

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