Displaying Crystal Report on the web

[gayadeen]

How do you display your Crystal Report on the web?

 

[TedLiu]

Hi gayadeen,

I have a link about this, maybe can help you.

thread149-355777 !

Ted

 

[gayadeen]

Do you have to use ASP to display it on the web? Or can you just use HTML?

 

[TedLiu]

you can use html with url command to view report too.

 

[gayadeen]

Ted,

Thank yous for your help on this Crystal Reports thing. But let me be a little bit more specific on what I'm trying to accomplish. I want to create a dynamic web report using Crystal Reports. I have never used Crystal Reports before but from your help and a lot of practicing, I have figured out how to create a dynamic report using Crystal Reports.

My next step is to turn this report into a web report so what I need to know is what do I need to have or do to make this possible? I currently just have a client version of Crystal Reports installed. Do I need a Crystal Reports Server installed as well?

If I do need the Crystal Reports Server to make this web report possible, do all my report files stay with a rpt ext? Or do they need to be converted to htm or html? If they can stay as a rpt file, how is it possible that it can be viewed through the browser?

I'm sorry, I'm very new to this so I'm very lost

 

[TedLiu]

you need to have crystal enterprise version installed in the same system as web server. you just save your report file as reportname.rpt. when you call it from web browser, you need to use crystal report viewer to view them, which is a client side software and can be download when you view the report. inside my link above, there are crystal report viewer code inside. that code covers how to call the report application object, create session, logon to database, pass parameters and configure viewer setting, go through it slowly and patient, you could find everything you want.

Cheers !

Ted