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How To Disable Export Button In Crystal Report

When you are taking crystal report printouts through a program, such as program written using vb6. you might have a problem how to disable Export button in print preview.

Preview window contain export Button

All you have to change following property to false or Uncheck the Export option in Property Pages.
You

CR.WindowShowExportBtn = False

Crystal Report Object

Crystal Report Object in Visual Basic 6. (CR is refer to Crystal Report Object )


Preview window does not contain export Button

You can go to Property Pages by right click and choose Properties on Crystal Report Object

After you done those things you crystal Report print preview will showing like follows.



I was face to above problem. We implemented a software program which is written using vb6.
Cashier can take daily sale print out. before printing it is showing a preview to the user. So when the time pass user click export button and saved that report as a excel file. Then he modified the values and took printout to the management. That gives Security problem to the program and program become unstable. So we Disable Export Button to minimize the problem.

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