How to use R-Tag to export Crystal reports to multiple Excel tabs (worksheets)
Posted on: Sun, Jun 12 2016
by Admin
There are 2 ways to generate a single Excel file with multiple tabs:
- Run multiple reports, export and merge them in one Excel file. Each report will be placed into a separate worksheet.
- Run a single report, export it and add it to an existing Excel file as a new worksheet
These methods work for both local and SAP BOE Crystal reports.
1. Run multiple reports, export and merge them in one Excel file
This video shows an example for RT Report Manager exporting multiple reports to a single Excel file with multiple worksheets (tabs). Each report will be exported to a separate worksheet.
Create a job, add your reports and create an output on job level. Job level output will export all reports in the job to a single file. When exporting to Excel each report will be placed in a separate worksheet. Export to PDF will generate a single PDF file with bookmarks for each report.
2. Run a single report, export it and add it to an existing Excel file as a new worksheet
When creating a new export task select Excel as file type and set "If File Exists" option to "Add data as a new worksheet".
That's it! When RT Report Manager exports the report if there is no file it will be created. If file already exists the report will be added as a new worksheet (tab). The screenshot above is from the bursting example provided with RT Report Manager. It is using a value returned by the report formula @EmployeeName as a name for the new tab.
It worth to mention that you can export to Excel in multiple ways:
1. Export to Excel using conventional Crystal report export
2. Export to Excel using advanced RT Report Manager export.
Here is a sample of the same report exported using RT Report Manager advanced export for Crystal reports. The data is exported as an Excel table with frozen columns, filter and totals, which will be recalculated when a filter is applied. All standard Excel table styles are supported.
