Is there a free Crystal viewer

[mav617]

Hi,

is there any way to view the data from a Crystal Report without having to have Crystal itself loaded on the machine? I have some report data that I want to send to someone without changing the format too much but they don't have Crystal. Any ideas?

 

[Crystalguru]

There are several ways to view a crystal report without actually having the crystal reports software installed. It depends on how you want to go about it. There is a crystal viewer, "free", from Crystal Decisions (now Business Objects). You would have to search their website for it. The other options are to export the report to a desired format, they are many of them (excel, txt, rtf, etc..)

Go to File Print - Export - Click on the drop down arrow on the second box. You will see a list of options.

crystalguru

 

[HendryBetts]

There is a very simple way to implement the report viewer and it is free... but you have to have Crystal Reports Professional to get the RDC.

 

[GJParker]

Export it to PDF, by far the simplest solution.

Gary Parker
MIS Data Analyst
Manchester, England

 

[chelseatech]

There are several third party report viewers out there. Ken Hamady has a full list on his web site including my cView viewer.

Editor and Publisher of Crystal Clear

http://www.chelseatech.co.nz/pubs.htm