Customising Appearance of Crystal Enterprise 1

[MrTBC]

Crystal Enterprise v8
Crystal Reports v8.5
Progress Database

I am going to use E-Portfolio to share reports and would like to customise the appearance of the web pages. Nothing too radical but I need to -
Change to colours of the bars at the top
Replace the E-Portfolio logo with a different logo
Remove the 'Exit' hyperlink at the top

Can anyone point me in the direction of some simple guidelines for doing this please.

Thanks very much.

 

[ShortyA]

If you look at the URL at each point that you want to customise that is a good starting point eg available.csp

There is a good book called "Using Crystal Enterprise 8.5" published by QUE which I use quite a bit.

On colour usage generally there is a cascading style sheet under Enterprise\Eportfolio\en\css on your server that is used for a lot of the font standards.
ShortyA

 

[DaBuggs]

Will that book help if you want to radically change the display? Or a better source? I know it comes with a SDK but that hasn't helped me much.

Thanks for any info you have.

DaBuggs

 

[ShortyA]

There is quite a bit of sample code in the book providing suggestions on how to build your own EPortfolio equivalent or admin frontends.

 

[mdwyer]

Radical changes to the display are probably more related to javascript and asp programming than to Crystal specifically. The SDK guide does a poor job of explaining the interface to the data stores. I've had the QUE book on my desk since long before I thought of doing my own customizations, but ironically I did not even look at it during my customization effort. I got more help out of javascript, asp, and html programming references along with the SDK guide and samples as mentioned. All that plus a healthy dose of trial-and-error.

Plus there are a lot of anomalies with the SQL-like queries against the APS object model. Like selecting WHERE SI_INSTANCE (=, IS) (FALSE, 'FALSE'). I finally guessed that SI_INSTANCE is either 0 or 1, but displayed as TRUE or FALSE in the Query Builder - another helpful resource.

One problem with the samples is that you have to bilingual, in both javascript and jscript, and want to translate into or out of a VB format.