Exposing the CR Designer to end users

[cehowski]

I know I'm supposed to be able to make the Report Designer available to end-users of a custom application, but I haven't found instructions yet, on exactly how that is done. I don't see a component or control in the toolbox, that would seem to do the trick. There were a couple of additional options that could be added to the toolbox, but I wasn't sure that any of them were the answer either.

Can someone point me to instructions on how to do that? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

john

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
You know this how:

I know I'm supposed to be able to make the Report Designer available to end-users of a custom application,

AFAIK, design capability is not deployable in custom apps without specific licensing...





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[hilfy]

It's not much help but, IIRC, the RDC web components do/did some of this. Although they are available with XI, they have been deprecated and will not be available in the future.

-Dell

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[cehowski]

http://www.businessobjects.com/products/reporting/crystalreports/integration.asp

I should contact Crystal - I have Developer (Ver 11) and the first heading at the Link above "Interface SDKs" indicates that report creation should be accessible to end users. The book "Crystal Reports 11 - The Complete Reference" (well almost complete) also states it - though they don't go into any detail (I'll look again) regarding doing it. It does mention licensing, but states that it is only necessary that each "organization" that an app is used by, must purchase a copy of Developer (or Server). My apps would be completely within our organization, nothing commercial, so that should not be an issue.

If I find out what the deal is I'll post back. If anyone else has any previous experience, or knows anyone that has, let us know.

Thanks,
John

 

[dgillz]

Why not just install crystal reports on their machine(s)? Why put it in an application?

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