CE10 Publish Reports to Web?? 2

[aaardal]

Is it possible to publish reports with parameters to the web to be accessed outside the network?

If so, is it a feature within CE10 or would it have to be a customized webpage?

TIA!

 

[MJRBIM]

You have to ask yourself if you really want to expose you InfoView / ePortfolio environment to the External users....?

From a security POV, most of my clients write a small web-application using the .NET or Jave SDKs.

That "custom" application sits on their EXTRA-net for public access.

It communicates to the internal BOE-XI (R2) servers via the SDK.

There are firewall permissions and CMC security settings to ensure that the "custom" application has very limited access.

You could just put a copy of InfoView / ePortfolio on the external site and grant "Guest" access to anyone - but I expect that would not meet your security requirements.

Also - FYI - time to migrate off CE10 to BOE-XI (R-3.1). It is no longer supported by the vendor.



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[aaardal]

MJRBIM thank you for your post. We are currently working on implimenting XI in our enviorment but currently run CE10. Does XI have a better solution that would fit my needs?

I'm trying to come up with a solution for a local hospital to access a crystal report, on our network, which would allow them to put in a set of date parameters and get report data back.

We currently do this with our internal departments where we give them a named user and access to certain reports.

Right now my only solution is to setup a vpn access into our network and then run the report.

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
CE10 and XI use similar techniques to allow External access to pubished reports - most places that do this, use an external web page that communicates through specified ports to a server located in the DMZ which then uses CE/BOE's firewall access methods to reach the internal CMS..

The Docs are pretty good on this both for CE and BOE.






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[aaardal]

Thank you Turkbear!

I will head out to BO site to search out these documents.