Passing a value to Crystal Reports fields

[Peric]

I've asked few similar questions 'til now but here's one more.

Well, I have example of Crystal Report document, in that document I have 3 fields from 2 tables (loaded from my database). What I'm trying to do is to access one of those fields (year field) programmaticly and pass only one value...let's say I only want to show year "2006."
I've tried different things but nothing works 'til now. Last thing I've tried is this code:

Dim report As New Report123

rep03.Section3.ReportObjects.Item("Field1").Name.ToString

So, with this, I can access to the field i want...but I don't know how to set or get any of his value...this code above only gets name of that field, I just put that for an example.
I just want to do next: give user a chance to print different reports for different years, and I want to have some combobox menu...hope someone could help me. thanks

[Peric]

Anyone, please?

maybe this example is even closer...

Dim aad As CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.FieldObject

aad = rep03.ReportDefinition.ReportObjects.Item("field1")

but I don't know what to do after this :)

[Peric]

in the end, i will use this, it gives me result that i've been looking for:

Reports_Dialog.CrystalReportViewer1.SelectionFormula = "{Season.Year} = '2006.'"

[Peric]

Well, as I said it...I found out how to change some things in Crystal Reports...but I need one more thing.

When i'm sending value to a textObject I have something like this:

Dim name As CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.TextObject
name = Report1.ReportDefinition.ReportObjects.Item("textImePrezime")
        name.Text = dtName.Rows(0).Item(0)

and this works great...

but I want to change picture in Crystal Reports, i'm trying something like this:

Dim picture As CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.PictureObject
            picture = Report1.ReportDefinition.ReportObjects.Item("Picture3")

After that i'm trying to give that PictureObject some kind of path or something, but i don't have that option.
Does anyone know how to do this??? Thank you

[TomW]

CR has always seemed difficult to use, the documentation for it is very difficult to understand or even find what you are looking for. I dont think the lack of responses are due to your questions just that most have a problem working with CR themselves.

As for passing parameters, I would first create the parameter field on the report, say the name is "Par1". I would then call and pass the parameter value as follows:

rpt.Load
rpt.SetDataSource(myDataSet)
rpt.SetParameterValue("Par1", txtReportParameter.Text.Trim)

As far as passing a file path to load the picture, I dont think this can be done. Of course I would think that this would/should be possible but I havent seen a way of doing so, except what Ive shown you before as an example.