Does RDC includes RCAPI? 1

[Z3]

RDC is included in the Developer Edition. Does RDC include RCAPI?
RDC - report designer component
RCAPI - report creation API

I am trying to figure out which edition to purchase - Advanced or Developer. I was told I need report creation API.
Thanks

 

[vidru]

I don't have CR XI on my machine here, and I'd forgotten to try testing with the RCAPI in the newest version to see if it's completely locked down without a license. Here's a blurb from this whitepaper explaining the licensing for CR XI:

Crystal Reports includes more than 750 royalty-free runtime APIs that you can integrate into your thick-client Windows applications to enable a variety of capabilities including report viewing, printing, and exporting. From a licensing perspective, you may use these APIs within your applications for internal corporate deployment and/or redistribution to third parties without additional licensing requirements.

For COM developers, there is one minor exception to the above guideline; if you use any of the report creation APIs available in the report designer component (RDC) for a thick-client application that will be redistributed to third parties, you must purchase a copy of Crystal Reports Developer Edition for each company you redistribute your application to. Volume pricing may also be available through the Business Objects Dimensions Program or the Business Objects OEM Partner Program.

In CR 8.5, you could experiment with the RCAPI, but there was a 'nag' screen that would make sure you knew that deploying an application using any of the RCAPI calls required additional licensing (for the developer, as well as the client). Starting with CR 9, you can't even experiment with the RCAPI, as they've completely locked it down unless a valid license exists on the Dev machine.

The blurb above makes it sound as if the RCAPI is available to developers, but you might actually try to get that answer straight from a Sales Rep before taking the leap.

-dave

 

[Z3]

Thanks. I actually meant CR10. We are not ready for XI yet. And BO had remove all CR10 from the Website so I could not find any info. So sounds like if I need to play with the RCAPI, I just need to get a Developer version of CR10 from a reseller, right?
Thanks

 

[vidru]

If you can wait about 12 hours, I can test with 10 and/or XI and let you know what I find.

-dave

 

[vidru]

The 'nag' screens don't appear in CR 10 of XI, so it looks like you can develop with the RCAPI, but to stay within their licensing, follow the guidelines in the above blurb.

-dave