Crystal Reports 8 \ VB 6

[MariK]

I created reports using Crystal Reports 8. I used Ado to link SQL sever 7 tables to my reports. I am previewing the reports from Visual Basic using the Crystal Report Engine with Global32.bas ect. My reports open fine on the PC I use for developement and on PC's with Windows 98. If I try to run the reports from a Windows NT machine the reports open but close itself immediately. Can anybody help me with this as it is driving me nuts!

 

[lynneb]

It's been months since I fought with a similar problem, but I seem to remember there are two possibilities. Either NT doesn't like leaving active connections open in the background when you don't have a login connection to the server that it handled; or the NT machines are lacking one of the Crystal Reports DLLs that allow the report viewer to function. A simple test would be to install Crystal Reports to either an NT machine, or the server you're running the query from if the application is server-based, and see if the problem goes away.

 

[Guest_imported]

Hi

I am using Crysal Reports Professional Version 8 with Crystal Enterprise. I am trying to Create the following object on the web server in an ASP but it won't create it and crashes. Bth installations went fine.

Server.CreateObject("Crystal.CRPE.Application&quot

Anyone any ideas why.

 

[MariK]

Hi,

Thanks for helping me with question. I installed Crystal Reports on the NT machine and the reports opened without a problem. I gathered from this that I am not shipping the all the relevant dll's with my package. I wrote some error handling code to verify this and get the following error:
Error 532: Can not find database dll. I made certain that I shipped the database dll with the package but I still get this error. Any ideas?

 

[lynneb]

There are several possible DLLs that might be used. Best bet is to check the Runtime Files Requirements online help (there's a file that will probably be C:\Program Files\Seagate Software\Crystal Reports\Developer Files\Help\Runtime.hlp, or something similar), that has a list of what files are used for each connection method.

I hope that pans out.