Report Summary Info

[scriptscroll]

My Web form displays a listing of reports to select from, with the associated image I wish to display the Report File Info, such as Comments, Author, ect. I can achieve this by opening each report and getting the properties, but this is really slow. There must be a 'better' way to "preview" the Report Summary Info from the Report Object?

For Example:

Set clientDoc = objectFactory.CreateObject "CrystalClientDoc.ReportClientDocument&quot
clientDoc.open theReportName

If clientDoc.summaryinfo.title = "" Then
EncapComment = "There is no Summary Information for this Report."
Else
EncapComment = "TITLE :" & vbTab & clientDoc.summaryinfo.title & vbCrLf &
"AUTHOR :" & vbTab & clientDoc.summaryinfo.author &
vbCrLf & _
"KEYWORDS :" & vbTab & clientDoc.summaryinfo.keywords & vbCRLf & "COMMENTS :" & vbTab & clientDoc.summaryinfo.comments

End if

 

[FVTrainer]

If speed is an issue, have you thought of running a routine to compile this information into a database table. If your report list is not very dynamic (i.e., you're not adding or dropping reports frequently), you could create a table that stores all the report summary info, and then query the database table rather than open each report via the RDC at runtime. Just a thought..