Report in browser - complete beginner question

[warchyld]

Hello,
Complete beginner here with ASP, so forgive me.
What I'm looking to do is display 1 or 2 reports in a web browser.
I have Crystal 9, with the RAS but no prior knowledge of ASP, and the powers that be don't want to shell out the cash for full blown Enterprise.

I read that I could have code as simple as:
<A HREF=ActiveXViewer.asp?ReportName=test.rpt>Link</a>
to view the report.
When I open this in IE the ActiveX viewer opens, but I don't get any report at all. In this case test.rpt isn't even linked to any databases - It's simply a report with "Test" as a text object.

Can it be this simple, or do I have to delve deeper into ASP?

Does anyone have any references or links? Again, I don't need to do anything too outrageous - simply be able to open and refresh the reports, and the reports are fairly simple.

Thanks.

 

[synapsevampire]

If the report doesn't return data, it won't display, so try a REAL report.

BO has lots of samples and tips here:

http://www.businessobjects.com/products/dev_zone/comasp/default.asp

-k

 

[warchyld]

So using the supplied Crystal ASP files I should be able to do something as simple as my example?

I actually did try a real report first, and got nothing (just the blank ActiveX viewer window - no report) so I wanted to try just a blank report, to see if it was perhaps a connection problem.

I'll check out that link.

Thanks.