How to build multilingual Crystal reports

Question

We are developing a multilingual Winforms application using visual studio 2008. I am trying to figure out how I can create multilingual reports using crystal Reports.

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Answer 1

This would be a manual way of doing this:

1. Create a report for each language you want and put into the proper folders structure. i.e. all japanese reports will go into rpt_ja/ folder.

   

2. Use .Net Resource file to specify report resource name and full resource name for each language:

   • resource.resx

     RPT_SAMPLE -> report01.rpt

     RPT_SAMPLE_FULL -> MyCompany.NameSpace.Reports.Report01.rpt

   • resource.ja.resx

     RPT_SAMPLE -> rpt_ja\report01.ja.rpt

     RPT_SAMPLE_FULL -> MyCompany.NameSpace.Reports.Report01.ja.rpt

3. Then use this value in the report code file: Open the report .cs file and change:

   public override string ResourceName {
   get {
       // Change this to HttpContext.GetGlobalResourceObject("Resource", "RPT_SAMPLE").ToString();
       return "report01.rpt";
   }
   set {
       // Do nothing
   }
   

   }

   public override string FullResourceName {
       get {
           // Change this to HttpContext.GetGlobalResourceObject("Resource", "RPT_SAMPLE_FULL").ToString();
           return "rpt_ja\report01.ja.rpt";
       }
       set {
           // Do nothing
       }
   }
   

EDIT: HttpContext is for ASP.Net web application. In winform, you can try Properties.Resources.ResourceManager.GetString() to get the string from resources

Answer 2

I'm sorry that I'm robbing you of your tumbleweed badge, but I don't think Crystal has the multiple language support similar to .NET. I think that your only option is to have a separate report for each language and pass the data into the report in the language that you wish to display.

Here is a link of a similar answer. http://www.dbforums.com/crystal-reports/991737-crystal-report-multillingual-support.html

Answer 3

A client ask me for a solution to this issue. I developed a solution based on Crystal Reports contentLocale keyword and Custom Functions. See my posting: http://www.cogniza.com/blog/?p=55.