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Topic: Autographed copies of CR Encyclopedia
Posted By: BrianBischof
Subject: Autographed copies of CR Encyclopedia
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2007 at 5:13pm
My new book, "Crystal Reports Encyclopedia, Volume I" is getting close to being finished. I'm hammering out the final chapter now. It should be ready for shipping in mid-June.

I've been debating whether to let people pre-order autographed copies of the book online. This lets the forum members be the first ones to get the book. You would get it before the stores even get their copies in stock. It would be helpful for me to get some money in advance to fund the printing of the book because I'll be doing a big print job for this one and it won't be cheap.

The only caveat would be that I will only ship within the US b/c international shipping fees are very expensive.

If you think you'd be interested in ordering one of the first copies of the book, please respond here. If this gets a lot of interest then I'll do it.

Oh yeah - Here is the Amazon.com link. They say it will be ready in September, but that is wrong. Unfortunately, they won't list the actual date till they get their copies in stock.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0974953601/bischofsystem-20 - Crystal Reports Encyclopedia


One more thing - This is for Volume 1 only and it DOES NOT cover .NET 2005. The .NET programming model and how to integrate reports into your custom application will be covered in Volume 2 only. I expect Volume 2 to come out late this year (but I have no idea when since I haven't started working on it yet).

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Posted By: -che
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2007 at 9:05am
Cool I am the first to reply! Put me down for one... is there a link to a paypal or something to send you the money? Since I am the first to reply and purchase can you write #1 copy sold along with your autograph?

Thanks and congrats on finishing up the book!
-che

Posted By: ACalderon
Date Posted: 03 May 2007 at 10:29am
Hi there, Sign me in for one too !!!
How do I send the money bro?


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Thanks and Best Regards
AC

Posted By: BrianBischof
Date Posted: 04 May 2007 at 8:51am
Thanks for your interest! However, the response has been pretty non-existent so I don't know if I'll offer this or not. It will take some work to set up and do it. I still have a little more than a month before it gets close to being printed, so I'll see how it goes.

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Posted By: ACalderon
Date Posted: 04 May 2007 at 11:10am

Ok, pls let me know how it goes then.

Can you send me some pointers in creating a report from an stored procedure?, in the expert, when I add the sp, there are no fields to add, so the expert won't enable the next or the finish buttons.

Where do I go from here?
 
Thanks


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Thanks and Best Regards
AC

Posted By: BrianBischof
Date Posted: 04 May 2007 at 11:17am
When adding the stored procedure, it will analyze it and make a list of all fields it returns and also create parameters if necessary. Is it not doing any of this?

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Posted By: ACalderon
Date Posted: 04 May 2007 at 2:42pm

No, could it be the structure of the stored procedure?, and you send the correct structure for an stored procedure to work with the report, please.

Do I have to make it return a table or something like that?

Thanks again.



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Thanks and Best Regards
AC

Posted By: BrianBischof
Date Posted: 04 May 2007 at 3:49pm
Yes, the stored procedure has to return data (a table). If it doesn't, then Crystal doesn't have anything to report and nothing will happen.

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Posted By: EscApe
Date Posted: 07 May 2007 at 12:51am
Hi, Brian!

I am also interested in buying your book, but live in Finland... So, I'll have to wait until it is on Amazon.

Cheers,
EscApe

Posted By: SYRTECH
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 8:27pm
Yes, I would buy this also as soon as it is available.  What books to you offer that I can buy or download that will help us with ver 8.5 & 10?

Posted By: BrianBischof
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 10:24pm
Thanks for your interest. My other book is for Crystal Reports .NET 2003. The new book is for Crystal Reports XI Professional. I don't have books for older versions. But most of the online content in my free chapters will help you with CR 8.5 and 10. Just the screen shots will be different.

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Posted By: ACalderon
Date Posted: 10 May 2007 at 6:04am
Hi Brian, good day.
 
Is there anywhere that I can see the stored procedure structure, I haven't found it anywhere and the book hastn't arrived yet.
 
I have my sp like this:
 
alter sp_report_query @id1 int, @date datetime as
begin
 
set nocount on;
 
Select id, description, value, city, type from table where mailto:id=@id1 - id=@id1 and date between dbo.fu_firstday(@date) and @date
 
end
go
 
The expert won't recognize the fields of the query.
 
Need your help please.
 
 


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Thanks and Best Regards
AC

Posted By: BrianBischof
Date Posted: 10 May 2007 at 11:49am
I don't get it. Looks good. What about trying a simple SP with no parameters first and seeing if it recognizes it.

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Posted By: concrc
Date Posted: 16 May 2007 at 5:24am
thx

Posted By: maniac
Date Posted: 17 May 2007 at 11:17am
Brian:
 
As I will be using CR for 1st time at new job, it's a no brainer.


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