Distributing Crystal Reports

[TudorSmith]

Hi Folks

Using CR 8.5, I've created 8 reports which link to an SQL DB. Teh users are running a Web applicaiotn I have developed.

What I would like to do is distribute the reports via the web so that the users can just click a link on the web site, and run the report (including parameter prompt for those reports that use them).

Can anyone point me to any decent websites (that don't take hours to navigate and drill-down to find what I'm looking for) that give information on distributing reports via the web?

Thanks

Tudor

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[IdoMillet]

Your question is a bit too general (no hints about number of users, etc.) but here's a start: faq782-2352

hth,
- Ido

CUT, Visual CUT, and DataLink Viewer:
view, e-mail, export, burst, distribute, and schedule Crystal Reports.

http://www.MilletSoftware.com

 

[gav12345]

birklea,

Have you considered using Crystal Enterprise? Don't know about the financial circumstances, but its probably the simplest solution. Enterprise 10 is the latest release which may be a bit of an overkill if you only have 8 reports, but its a very nice product with good security configurability and a plethora of other features. - We use this for numerous applications connecting to various database types and yes, you can call the reports directly from your application and pass in the parameters etc. at the same time. Go to the Business Objects website for further info.

gav

 

[sabloomer]

IdoMillet & gav12345,

I was hoping you could shed some light on my related problem. I am developing 5 or so Access 2000 reports for my department of 15 people. The data is only updated once a morning and not huge. My manager suggested that I try to publish these though a web page we already had. That web page, it turns out, is just parked on a network drive, not a web server. Is there anyway to use Crystal Reports 9 Developer Edition to make a webpage that I could put in a network folder that doesn't require me to refreash/update the data manually every day? This is not considered a project for the IT department, so I do not have any additional resources.

Thanks for the help,

sabloomer

 

[IdoMillet]

One option is to use one of the 3rd-party Crystal Report Managers listed at:

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

to schedule daily exporting of the 5 Crystal reports into HTML (or PDF) and place the resulting file on that shared drive.

Cheers,
- Ido

CUT, Visual CUT, and DataLink Viewer:
view, e-mail, export, burst, distribute, and schedule Crystal Reports.

http://www.MilletSoftware.com

 

[sabloomer]

IdoMillet,

Thank you for the help. I will look into the 3rd-party managers that you mentioned.

Thanks,

sabloomer

 

[jymm]

He wont plug his own stuff - but - I use Ido's utility (Visual Cut) to export reports to a shared drive each morning --- pretty slick since with some reports I have it overlay the most recent copy and other reports I integrate the time & date into the file name... still others I email out --- so amazingly simple... I would hate to think what I would do without it (sorry for the plug Ido).