Crystal Reports: Developer or Professional Edition for web work?

[aolb]

In an Intranet environment, I want to enter report parameters using APS and use Crystal to show the results. The users using the intranet will not have Crystal reports, what do I need to buy and set up to do this?

 

[kenhamady]

Did you mean ASP or APS? If you really meant APS (the Crysal Automated Process Scheduler) then you will need developer and Crystal Enterprise. Only CE comes with the APS. If you meant ASP you will also need Developer, since you will need the RDC engine. Ken Hamady, On-site Custom Crystal Reports Training & Consulting
Public classes and individual training.
Guide to using Crystal in VB

http://www.kenhamady.com/

tek@kenhamady.com

 

[aolb]

I do intend to use ASP as the interface (sorry for the original typo) to pass the parameters to Crystal. I think I will have to use Crystal Enterprise to manage the active licences for Crystal as the users will not have Crystal on their workstations. Is this correct?

 

[kenhamady]

I believe you can use ASP without CE, just installing CR on the server. You have to manage the licenses within your ASP but I think there is sample code for that in one of the developer sample files.

If you install CE, you have to use CSP (Crystal Server Pages) which is very similary but proprietary.

You might also look at ReCrystalize (on my "Links" page) which generates ASP code for you. Ken Hamady, On-site Custom Crystal Reports Training & Consulting
Public classes and individual training.
Guide to using Crystal in VB

http://www.kenhamady.com/

tek@kenhamady.com

 

[AEldridge]

If you use CR8.5 directly through ASP code, the report engine still handles the licensing for you (i.e. it enforces the 5 CAL limit or however many licenses you have purchased), but you will need to write code to handle "no more licenses" exceptions.

Cheers, Alan Eldridge
Melbourne, Australia

 

[kenhamady]

Thats right, v8 doesn't enforce the license (although the license is essentially the same) but in v8.5 the engine does the enforcement. Ken Hamady, On-site Custom Crystal Reports Training & Consulting
Public classes and individual training.
Guide to using Crystal in VB

http://www.kenhamady.com/

tek@kenhamady.com

 

[Guest_imported]

Hi,

I use an access project which is connected to SQL server. The server is at another loacation. I use a dial up connection to that location (VPN)
The server is running Windows 2000 server and SQL sever.
It works fine. I created many reports with crystal reports. I view the reports also with crystal reports, but i want to view them with access (ActiveX control???). But i don't know how. Is it possible to store the reports on the server? and view them in access?

Has anyone an idea?

Thanks!!

 

[aolb]

So what would be the best option, ASP or CSP to build the interface in that passes the parameters to Crystal Reports? Is there much benefit in using CSP? would there be additional cost using CSP?

Thanks for the info so far, helpful stuff.

 

[fwatanabe]

I posted a question about RDC in the VB5&6 forum (thread222-253017)... and was told that RDC can be downloaded from the Crystal Website. Is this true? I just ordered Crystal Developer, thinking that was the only way to get RDC.

I am new to VB & Crystal, what is RDC and why do I need it instead of the Crystal viewer component that ships with VB? I know that the Crystal Viewer ocx is an old version (4.6 or something) but does using RDC provide more functionality? Or are they just 2 different ways to do the same thing?

I have a CR 8.5 report that needs to be viewed thru a VB6 front end I've developed. I need the ability to export and mail to PDF format. I think I can code this in VB, but having that little 'export' button that comes with Crystal sure would save me some time.

Any thoughts or advice would be helpful... I'm still trying to sort this all out...

 

[kenhamady]

Both ASP and CSP will pass parameters, and there is no additional cost to using CSP. CSP is within the Enterprise environment and ASP is independent of the ASP. To get some ideas of what your Enterprise config options you might want to read the following:

ce8_introductory_tips.pdf
ce8_general_q_and_a.pdf
Fwatanabe,

You can download a 30 day eval of the RDC on the following page (but you still have to buy it eventually):

http://www.crystaldecisions.com/products/crystalreports/rdc/default.asp

Ken Hamady, On-site Custom Crystal Reports Training & Consulting
Public classes and individual training.
Guide to using Crystal in VB

http://www.kenhamady.com/

tek@kenhamady.com