Publishing Crystal Reports 1

[SarahB]

I am a new Crystal Reports user and hoped that experienced users would be able to offer some advice Crystal Enterprise manager or other suitable options. I believe there is something called Recrystallize Pro.

What we are trying to do is produce around 50 reports and display these reports when a user clicks on a menu item. We want these reports to be dynamic and only to show the user options and results, i.e. not the designer.

I would really appreciate any advice,

Thanks

 

[Naith]

There are a couple of decent tools on the market from Crystal which might suit your purpose.

Seagate Info provides a desktop format report delivery system via Info Desktop. This is a very intuitive tool, as it follows the Windows Explorer folder/objects style.

Crystal Enterprise 8.0 offers the same stuff as Info, except that Enterprise was built with web deployment in mind. Whilst Info has web publishing functionality, it was kind of tacked on as an afterthought.
Enterprise v8.0 doesn't have some aspects which were available in Info, however - like scheduling straight to other formats, like Excel or csv, as opposed to scheduling the object in standard format, and then having to export it afterwards.

Enterprise 8.5, however, patches up these holes, enabling you to do everything Info did before. I think 8.5 can also sit on unix as well as windows.

Both Enterprise and Info, however, both have user and object administration; so two different users with different access rights, could look at exactly the same report desktop, and be presented with completely different reports, depending on how much you wanted each user to see.

There are quite a few independent reviews of both Seagate Info and Crystal Enterprise on the web.

Hope this helps,

Good luck,

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