CE9 and Export Options 1

[quinngc]

In CE9 is it possible to restrict users ability to export to certain formats with Java, Java Plugin and ActiveX viewers without having to rewrite the viewers?

 

[RoughingIT]

Well, you could disable the export dlls by renaming them to .old but that would be a broad sweep.
Depending on how your reports are set up, you could use server groups to force some objects to use a certain (export dll restricted) page server.
I can't think of a better way.

 

[quinngc]

What are the locations (Generally) of the export dll's? It would work for us to disable for the whole server...

Thanks

 

[RoughingIT]

c:\program files\common files\crystal decisions\2.0\bin

all the crxf and u2f are export dlls.

 

[gashandler]

I had the same issue with not wanting users to be able to export to 'rpt' format and the only method I could come up with was to rename the export dll. In CE85 you could modify the export page but I asked Crystal Support and now the export features are built-in to the WCS which I think is pretty stupid unless they had a good reason to do this. There's actually a lot of things about CE9 that I don't like. Been using it since 10/1 and I think it pretty much sucks. I wish I'd stuck with CE85.

 

[mdwyer]

If you are using ePortfolio, you can edit out the format options you don't want users to select.

See schedule.CSP, lines 2297-2306. Any options you want to make unavailable, just put a // at the front of the line.

Note that the text displayed is in a language-localization variable. So, L_CR maps to "Crystal Report" on line 214.