How can I display a string which excess 254 chars in Crystal Reports 8.5?

Question

hi How can I display a string which excess 254 chars in my report created by crystal reports 8.5? My application that shows the report ia a vb6.0 application.

Thank you

Answer 1

Looks like you have to build it up in CR 8.5. Check out this example.

If using a database, you would have to split the string into several columns before it gets passed into crystal.

Answer 2

Use Memo datatype in the report definition instead of the String.