Distributing Compiled Reports 2

[Deanna]

Does Version 8 allow a report to be compiled and distributed to a computer that does not have Crytal Reports installed (for viewing purposes only)? I have done that with Version 7 but so far do not see how to do that with the new version.

 

[MalcolmW]

This feature has been left out of the initial release, but has been promised for a v8 MR. <p>Malcolm Wynden<br><a href=mailto:wynden@island.dot.net>wynden@island.dot.net</a><br><a href= > </a><br>

 

[LindaC]

Seagate has had to relent to it's users who have need of a compiler.&nbsp;&nbsp;Seagate has agreed to make this feature available as an add-on for version 8. It is now available on their website for download.&nbsp;&nbsp;They say however they will not include it in their next version.&nbsp;&nbsp;They want everyone to use the web based reporting.

 

[AKarim]

Has someone tryed the add-on ? Is it the same compiling engine SCRViewer 7 or a newer CRViewer 8 ?

 

[LindaC]

Seagate has not changed it at all.&nbsp;&nbsp;They are just giving us what we had with CRv7.

 

[Caren]

Is web based reporting available on 7.0?

 

[MalcolmW]

Web based reporting is available on v5 upwards, although it was pretty flaky until v7. V8 is a code rewrite, and is much faster and multithreaded.

 

[FowlerConsulting]

I disagree with MalcomW in that &quot;V8 is a code rewrite...&quot;

If you use the WCS (Web Component Server) the functionality is the same.
If you use the Automation Server the code is it the same.
If you migrate from the Automation Server to the RDC, then yes you need to change some code as you are now using a different object model.

You can install CR on a web server and be authoring HTML base pages that run reports in the same day… I do this all the time for my clients

Here is an section of an article I authored on Converting your Application from CR 7.0 Components to CR 8.0 (the full article will be available on my site.)

!!! WARNING TECHY LANGUAGE BELOW !!!

The CPEAUT components were initially offered in the 6.0 release of CR, and have not undergone many changes sense. The CPEAUT is actually just a wrapper COM component around the CRPE (Crystal Reports Print Engine) API’s. As such it did not expose very much application functionality.

The RDC object model is much flatter then the CRPEAUT, and the instantiation of objects and collections necessary to access a reports attributes will very. In some cases you may have to rewrite a lot of code if you are utilizing some of the more complicated aspects of the CRPEAUT.

The DLL reference to the object models the RDC and CRPEAUT are CRAXDRT.DLL and CRPEAUT32.DLL respectively.

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