Web Component Server

[MrMystery]

I have a Windows NT 4 server, with IIS installed.
I have created a simple HTML page, with a link to a Crystal 8.5 .rpt file.
With Crystal Enterprise installed on the server, the report will open in a Crystal Report Viewer through Internet explorer,(prompting for download of the viewer for first time users).
This is exactly what I want to achieve! However, I don't want to purchase Crystal Enterprise licences for everyone in the company.
My copy of Crystal included a free 5 user licence for CE. Therefore, as soon as I have more than 5 people using the report, it reports an error requiring the Administrator password to connect to the WCS.
Is there a way to achieve all this without Crystal Enterprise?
Can the WCS be installed as a separate component without CE?
Please help!

 

[synapsevampire]

You need to try to understand Crystal's licensing, because they have gotchas everywhere. I say try, because it's constantly changing.

Here's a whitepaper on it, I think that the 5 user limit applied to almost every deployment methodology, so if you're trying to sidestep the licensing for web viewing, I doubt you'll find a means, inclusive of outputting to a PDF and just displaying that (they have a Broadcast license that covers that).

http://support.crystaldecisions.com/communityCS/TechnicalPapers/cr_licensing.pdf

There are 3rd party viewers, such as those listed on Ken Hamady's site:

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

-k

 

[FVTrainer]

Can you tell me which version of Crystal Enterprise you are running? Is it 8.0 or 8.5? There was a point where the version numbering between CR and CE was different and would help me to know so I can do some research on your problem...

 

[LMRollins]

Check into Recrystallize.

http://www.recrystallize.com.

It works great and you don't need to worry about licensing.