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Hello, I am in the midst of upgrading from Crystal Reports 8 to Crystal Reports XI sp2. The reports are invoked from a web application using the RDC method which passes in 17 optional parameters. Within the reports the Record Selection formula there is a setting "Exception for nulls", or...

Hi, I am running Crystal Reports 8 (Developer , or Professional) I did go Help > About Crystal reports. There is no indication whether it's Developer, or Professional. It notes: Seagate Crystal Reports Product: 8.0.10 Created... Size... That's about it.

Hello, How can you tell what version you have installed. I am not referring to the actual version like 8, or 11... but whether Professional, or Developer is installed. Thanks,

Hi, The problem was that the Crystal Reports Developer XI sp1 install did not automatically setup the proper permissions of our detault web user for the EMFGen.dll object. I ran RegMon (see www.sysinternals.com) This tool helped indicate a Access Denied issue when it tried to run some of the...

Hello, Thanks. I found one more article that I didn't have before. I purchased the book today... should be be arriving soon.

Hello, I am looking for a good Crystal Reports XI reference book that contains information on implementing RDC and JRC methods within web applications, upgrading tips...more that just how to create a report. We are having many problems trying to upgrade our Crystal 8 to 11... emfgen does not...

Hey, Needs different version of smartviewerActiveX & to replace rptserver.asp with rdcrptserver11.asp... as well, I think I need to upgrade my ODBC Drivers

Hi, I was reading on the Internet that "reports appear blank when auth fails" it is usually a data connectivity issue. I am not sure, but I think there is a dll that is called. I noticed within the configuration properties for my test IIS app on the App Mappings tab for .rpt ti points to...

Hello, Do you have any idea when or how the oRpt object is set? How does it know to open simplepreview.rpt?

Hi, Have you installed either the Crystal Reports 11 runtime on the server, or installed Crystal Reports Developer? I have Crystal Reports Developer loaded on our test web server. CrystalReports.ActiveXReportViewer -> crystalreports11.activex.reportviewer.1 CrystalReports.WebReportBroker ->...

Hello, Since I was still having troubles figuring things out I downloaded the files noted within the link, created my virtual directory... tried running the report. The viewer is displayed, but no report retrieved. Where in the registry is the webreportbroker?

Hello, They have one posted for the RDC method and Crystal Reports XI. See 'Display a report in an ASP page using RDC. Link: https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/businessobjects-samples?startIndex=201

Hi, Is yours a fresh install/setup of Crystal Reports XI on your web server, or are your reports currently running with an older version of Crystal Reports? For me, we have Crystal Reports 8, and XI developer installed on our web server. I have changed the the Smartviewer.asp page to...

Hello, Running RDC within ASP application. Tesing Crystal Reports XI. These are the Export file types listed: Crystal Report, Crystal Report 7.0, Rich Text Format, Word Document, Excel 5.0 Document. ASP code CRViewer: <OBJECT ID="CRViewer"...

Hello, We are currenly running Crystal Reports 8, and moving towards Crystal Reports 11. We have a number of IIS Web Applications that reside on a web server that invoke CR by using the RDC method. From what I have read, I believe that this upgrade will limit us to 3 concurrent process...