Accessing Crystal Reports Thru Infoview

[Videla]

Hi,

We are working with BO & Crystal XI. projecct has two different sets fo requirements namely adhoc reports & standard report.

For adhoc reports we are creatinng BO universes and exporteing them to repository. User will logon to infoview to access the same and create web intelligence docuements.

For standard reports, we are using CR XI, ASP.NET. User will select set of filters in the first page and on submit we will invoke a crystal report to show the results. crystal reports are published to Central Management Console. ASP.NET applications fetches using enterprise session and displays them using crystal report viewer control.

Now the main question is what is the suggested way for accessing these standard reports?? at present we told the user to logon to infoview to create any web intellignce documents. For standard report, we built a logon page which will validate the user using the data stored in BO repository and gives access to reports. But this leads to two logon pages for doing two tasks. User want a single sigon for accessing standard reports.

Is there a way by which user can access the standard reports from infoview itself? Any help is very much appreciated.

Thanks
Ravi

 

[hilfy]

Will you be saving instances of the Crystal Reports in BO? If not, then you don't have to go into InfoView to see them - you can use the ASP.Net CrystalReportViewer component.

We're in the process of implementing this sort of combined approach - BO XI for reports where we have to track history and the CrystalReportViewer for "online" reports that show a "snapshot" of the data at any given point.

-Dell

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