run crystal report from web page - please help

[cord]

Hello,

In my last job I activated crystal reports (crystal 7) from URL which
opened a crystal window, allowed the user to enter the parameters, and
then the report ran. Now, I am at a company that uses Seagate Info
Desktop 7.5, with Crystal 8. We have Info Desk web, but this just is a
"web" version of the windows explorer like environment of the
directories containing the reports. I want to somehow have a web page
where I can put a button labelled "YTD Report" and when it is clicked,
it doesn't open the InfoDesk environment but opens the report directly
and then the user can enter the parameters, and the report will run.
Or alternatively, enter values for the parameters in fields in the web
page, then click the button and through the code in the button pass
the parameter values to the report, so the report will run.
If anyone has experience doing this in an InfoDesk/Crystal
environment, please I need your help!
Or if this is not possible, is there a way to launch the crystal
report directly through MSAccess2000?
Thanks!!!!!!
-cord

 

[synapsevampire]

You can launch reports from Access.

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Databases/MS_Access/Q_20391646.html

It's been too long since I worked with SI to answer the question intelligently on an alternative WEB interface.

As I recall, there's a nice API available, so I'm sure that it's possible, the question is whether it's worth the time involved.

-k

 

[cord]

Thanks for the info!