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Alternate Row Color in Crystal Report


This article shows how to develop reports with alternating row colors.

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Most of the time while developing reports people wonder how to have alternating row colors in the report like below.

Customer Name Address City State Zip
Suparba panda 123 olive rd St Louis MO  54678
John Doe 456 Tree drive Raleigh NC 14676
Jane Doe 768 Hudson rd Atlanta GA 76555

There is a cool trick to it.

Go to the format section of the Details. Click the Color Tab. Then click the button next to the Background Color CheckBox..

In the formula editor of background color, type the following:

if RecordNumber mod 2 = 0 then crSilver else crNoColor

Save and close the editor.

And now when you run the report you will see alternate colors of silver and white in the details section.

Conclusion

In this article you learnt how to have alternating colors in the report detail section.


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This is good! by LeeKA On May 30, 2007
I was looking for the solution, and I didn't know it's so simple. Thanks for the tutorial. I've added this to my report. ^_^
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Export Excel worksheet to Crystal Reports with a button press y end user by Srinivasan On September 8, 2007
I am trying to export an excel workbook with a single worksheet as a page to be archived by Crystal Reports. The worksheet needs to be approved & then sent by the press of a button. Please let me know if there is a solution.
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Error message by Eddie On December 13, 2007
When I enter the formula in Crystal V10 I get the following error "The special variable 'Formula' must be assigned a value within the formula". Does anyone know what this means?
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Thank You by Prasanta On February 11, 2009
Thank you very much for a very Useful article.i have implemented in my Reporting. Thanking You... Prasanta kumar das
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Custom Colors by Allen On June 19, 2009

Keep in mind that you can use color codes instead of constants if you don't want to be limited to the list of colors.  e.g. "If RecordNumber Mod 2 = 0 Then Color (227,223,172) Else NoColor"

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Slight problem by GCeaser On August 25, 2009
The background color of the details section will extend beyond your data if your data does not go to both sides of the report.  Is there any easy was to fix this?   (I am using Crystal Report inside Visual Studio 2008)
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report load failed. by Ahmet On March 2, 2010
Crystalreport not working server. error = "Report Load Failed.".  help me please. 
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How to set alternative row color of grid using jQuery by eliza On March 18, 2010
When we represent some data in a grid view we usually prefer to set alternative row color.For this we can use two css classes with different background colors or inline styles. What we need to do is that while constructing the grid by looping through data set, we can check the loop count is odd or even and then attach an alternative class or inline CSS accordingly.
 
Suppose we need two alternative colors '#ffffff' and '#dedede' .
 
Using jQuery we can do this very easily.
 
 jQuery provides :even and :odd  selectors through which we can select odd and even element and set background color.
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