Deployment Issues

[Croaks]

Hi

My company are wanting to deploy reports that use dynamic data without the buyer having to own a copy of CR or Enterprise

In the old version we have you could deploy .exe files that installed the report and the neccesary files to view the report if you supplied ODBC Drivers with it the data could be refreshed using live data

We've now upgraded to CR10 and the only way i can see of deploying dynamic data is through Enterprise which is no good becauase we supply to small business and they they want to use their data for the report.

Are there any others ways of deploying or will we have to revert back to V7?

Croaks

 

[Katy44]

You could create a web site which passes parameters into a report, exports it to PDF and saves that PDF onto their machine. As far as I'm aware this would bypass all the usual problems.

 

[Katy44]

Sorry, I missed a bit - the point is you don't show them the report on the screen. This would prevent you using features like drill down and on-demand subreports etc.

 

[GJParker]

You can also use 3rd party report viewers a list of which can be found at

http://www.kenhamady.com/bookmarks.html

Or if you have any programming knowledge it's quite easy to develop your own viewer.


HTH


Gary Parker
MIS Data Analyst
Manchester, England