Creating a link passing crystal log on details

[RocLandy]

Hi all,

I have installed Enterprise 9 on to are network. We are designing a Portal which is connecting to a financial package. In the portal we would like to have links to various reports.

All users will be added to an NT group, Enterprise will create Crystal user accounts for all the members of this group.

Users will log in to the portal with the same account details as there NT account.

When the user clicks the link in the portal to a report we want to pass the users name and password with the link to Crystal.

Crystal Enterprise will then authenticate the user and the report will be displayed due to the extensions applied in Object manager.


The problem is how do we get the link in the portal to pass the users parameters to crystal and display the report????

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks

Ric

 

[Turkbear]

Hi, You could try using Single Sign On to handle it ( that way Crystal already 'knows' about the user),
or the code on your portal page(s) could replicate the actions taken by Crystal's logon.csp and logonform.csp code..In other words, authenticate to the APS before calling the report using the Username/Password entered - the Authentication Token would then be set on the client's PC ( as a cookie).