Report Distribution Expert

[brutus6294]

Am a little confused by the Report Distribution Expert in Crystal 8.5. Can I not, with the Compile Report option, compile a Crystal Report into an .exe format and throw it on a network share so that all users with or without Crystal loaded on their PC could execute it?
Or do I need to also go into this Report Distribution Expert, which looks like it creates some sort of Setup utility, to allow the users to run the exe's without Crystal installed locally.

 

[Madawc]

You can export and distribute report output in common formats like Excel or pdf. Does that help?

Madawc Williams (East Anglia, UK). Using Windows XP & Crystal 10

 

[brutus6294]

Thanks Mawdawc.
So I need to use the Report Dist Expert, if I want the user to have the ability to export Crystal reports without Crystal being installed on the PC?
With just the exe file (without the Expert installed) they could probably run the report, but not export, etc... Is that it?
Thanks..

 

[dgillz]

Yes the users can run the report w/o crystal, but you need to run the report distribution expert as madawc indicated. This installs all the ,dlls and other files needed to execute the report.

Have you actually tried this and failed? Or are you just preemptively freaking out about it?

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