Crystal reports viewer for Web 1

[dpk136]

I am doing a site in C# 2.0 and have a couple of questions about Crystal Reports for the Web.

is the report viewer an Active X control or is it a .NET Server control that converts everything to DHTML?

how does this work? can a user create a new report on the site or would the developer have to create a new report and post it for the user? also, could a user edit an existing report or is the viewer just a view only, no edit type of thing?

Does everything run through Crystal Reports Server? how do you publish for multiple users (only 4 users), do you ahve to buy CAL's or can you use the version that comes with Developer edition?

Thanks for any help that is given.

David Kuhn
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[dpk136]

anyone have any answers?

David Kuhn
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[AndrewBaines]

It's up to you. I normally just use the DHTML viewer. You can use Crystal Reports Server, or you can just run the report standalone.
The Crystal Server version with developer edition gives you 4 named users. You can buy additional CALs if you want.
There is an editor, but I think it only works in Windows - it's from the old RDC. Nothing to stop you writing a wizard to create rpt though. Just make sure you decide what functionality your users really need - you'll spend a long time trying to recreate crystal.

If you're using .Net 2.0, be careful with the installer - VS picks up the wrong files by default.



Andrew Baines

http://www.pursuittechnology.co.uk

 

[dpk136]

thanks for the help. Anyone seen any C# 2.0 code that would allow a user to create a report?

David Kuhn

 

[dpk136]

Would there be any advantage to running Crystal Reports Server versus running the report standalone?

David Kuhn

 

[AndrewBaines]

Advantage of Crystal Reports Server is mainly to do with the security, but you can also offload processing away from the web server.
CRS also gives you RAS which has it's own API for creating reports.
Your C# code will depend upon how much flexibility you want to give your users. First place to look is BO web site.

Andrew Baines

http://www.pursuittechnology.co.uk