HTML functionality in SAP Crystal Reports 2011

[Neethu]

Hi All

We are working with a customer who needs to confirm if Crystal 2011 Reports Designer has this functionality / features. 

Below is an extract of this and any assistance is appreciated.

The new features that would really,
really help;  ability to have fields with “MUCH” richer HTML format rendering in the reports – including HTML tables, more CSS features, as well as
the ability to support HTML MSO Tags (Microsoft Office).  This is because our clients sometimes copy and paste sections from MS Word documents – that
goes into HTML format fields.   Also, a richer set of RTF format would be helpful as well.

[former_member183750]

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[former_member1261230]

Is there another way to do the following in crystal.

1. Line 1
2. Line 2
3. Line 3

Currently I use the web editor control which uses the <ol> <li> tags to show numbers which is wrote to my database but these get stripped out in XI when being displayed.

Regards,

Roger Porter

[former_member183750]

See my reply here:

http://scn.sap.com/thread/3268971

- Ludek

[Former Member]

Hi Neetu,

Well which office mso html tag are we talking about??

as far as we know Crystal Reports only supports these tags:

HTML Text Interpretation formatting option supports HTML tags for text formatting only. 

The supported HTML tags are:

html

body

div (causes a paragraph break)

tr (causes only a paragraph break; does not preserve column structure of a table)

span

font

p (causes a paragraph break)

br (causes a paragraph break)

h1 (causes a paragraph break, makes the font bold & twice default size)

h2 (causes a paragraph break, makes the font bold & 1.5 times default size)

h3 (causes a paragraph break, makes the font bold & 9/8 default size)

h4 (causes a paragraph break, makes the font bold)

h5 (causes a paragraph break, makes the font bold & 5/6 default size)

h6 (causes a paragraph break, makes the font bold & 5/8 default size)

center

big (increases font size by 2 points)

small (decreases font size by 2 points if it's 8 points or larger)

b

i

s

strike

u

The supported HTML attributes are:

align

face

size

color

style

font-family

font-size

font-style

font-weight

In Crystal Reports 2008 Service Pack 2 and above, the following additional HTML tags and attributes have been added to the supported list:

The supported HTML tags are:

ul  ( bulleted list )

ol  ( ordered list )

li   ( tag defining a list item used for both list type: ul and ol. )

Note: The bullet will not show up as a regular size bullet, but a small dot.

The supported HTML attributes are:

strong ( bold )

This is we can say that it is a limitation still that Crystal Reports doesn't support all the HTML tags.

I thing there were no major upgrade been done in the html tag or CSS fron in crystal reports.

Regards

[Former Member]

All variations of align attribute are supported?
"text-align: justify;" are supported?

[Former Member]

Olá Jedais, did you have any solution to this problem? I am, problem in justify html alling and not possible.

[Former Member]

Yes! I had to convert HTML to RTF.
See this question in PT-BR.

They have not answered me why, but it seems that RTF behaves better than HTML in Crystal Reports.