Third Party Crystal Reports Viewers for Version 9

[Nassy]

Hi

I have Crystal Reports Advanced Version 9 on my machine and am currently researching Report Distribution options.

I have been on Ken Hamady's web site which I found to be extremely useful.

However, the only viewer I found that works with version 9 is Report Viewer 9 by Crystal Desk.

So I am wondering if anyone can recommend any other viewers?

Nassy

 

[synapsevampire]

Check out

http://www.milletsoftware.com,

his Viewers support CR 9, and I've worked with one of his products, definitely first rate.

-k

 

[IdoMillet]

Thanks for the kind words... )

Yes, DataLink Viewer runs CR 9.0 reports without any problems, but I would assume that so can many of the other viewers listed by Ken at:

http://www.kenhamady.com/bookmarks.html

If the web sites for these viewers don't state this explicitely, I would suggest you contact them directly and ask.

For example, the web site for CView at:

http://www.chelseatech.co.nz/ctprod.htm#cView

states the runtime files are for Crystal 8.5, but at the top of the page they state that they "now have a version that supports viewing Crystal Reports 9.0 reports".

In short, don't give up too early... )

Cheers,
- Ido

CUT, Visual CUT, and DataLink Viewer:
view, e-mail, export, burst, distribute, and schedule Crystal Reports.

http://www.MilletSoftware.com

 

[Nassy]

Thanks guys for your help.

A lot of the trial software does not seem to support 9 as when I try to run the report using these packages I get error messages such as 'Bad record' etc .

Funnily enough I had no such problems with Crystal Viewer 9.0. But I will certainly try the Data Link Viewer.

Thanks

Nassy

 

[finbib]

Try Chelsea Technologies cView. I have used the 8.5 version and it works great. I'm sure the v9 viewer works just as well.

http://www.chelseatech.co.nz/ctprod.htm

Good luck.

 

[chelseatech]

Hi guys,

Thanks for the kind words about my Crystal Reports Viewer. Yes, the Cr9 and Cr8 viewers work in similar ways as they use the same 98% of the code.

The big problem with CR9 report viewing is the CR9 run time requires a Unicode complient version of Windows. I couldn't get a setup to work with Win98, but it is fine for Win2k and WinXP.

Editor and Publisher of Crystal Clear

http://www.chelseatech.co.nz/pubs.htm