Distributing Crystal Reports with the Developers Edition

[jaybar48]

We are using Crystal XI, to analyze data that is submitted to us by community health centers.

We would like to write Crystal reports that the health centers can run, without having to purchase a Copy of Crystal Reports. We do not want to do this in the context of VB. We just want to give them the reports and let them run them against their own data.

Will the Developer's Edition allow us to do this? Is there a run-time version of Crystal that the health centers can use? How can this be done w/o embedding the reports into another application?

Thanks so much.

 

[dgillz]

Crystal did away with their report compiler starting in version 9. The only way to do this is distribute the reports as a VB project, or buy a crystal report viewer.

Datalink Viewer is my favorite, and very reasonable. Check out

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[kenhamady]

There is a list of viewers on my web site's LINKS page. Or you can create your own in a VB project if you know how to probram in VB.

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[jaybar48]

Thanks so far.

Can the commercial viewers handle running reports when the data of the person running (viewing) the report is in a different location than when the report was written or does the location of the data have to match exactly?

Thanks

 

[kenhamady]

I think some can handle that, but you should confirm with the vendor.

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Public classes and individual training.
Guides for Formulas, Parameters, Subreports, VB, .NET, Tips and Tricks

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[jaybar48]

Would the same considerations apply, if we wanted to integrate the reports into our Visual Fox Pro Application?

 

[IdoMillet]

In the case of DataLink Viewer, the application calling DataLink Viewer can use optional command line arguments to specify a different ODBC DSN, a different database withing the same server, a different oracle server, or a different SQL Server OLE DB target.

When used interactively (instead of from a calling application), the user can select a different ODBC DSN or override the database.

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