chilli Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 Just wondering if anyone on here is familiar with Crystal reports, ideally the 2008 version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Branners Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 sadly yes. Whats the question? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobUK Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 sadly me to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian W Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 Business Objects.....**shudder** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 Business Objects.....**shudder** Horrible, horrible system. Crystal reports is far better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted October 29, 2008 Author Share Posted October 29, 2008 hehe, cool some experts! Ok, so I first used it years ago and now we have a requirement possibly to use it again. I've downloaded the report creator part "Crystal Reports 2008" and it doesn't look like much has changed there, I can create a report .rpt, connect to databases and run it etc, no problems there. When it comes to adding it to an existing application on a web server, i.e. enabling end users to create their own ad-hoc reports or run existing reports with parameters over the web, I'm assuming we need to look at the "Crystal Reports Server 2008" product. I assume you can load .rpts to it and publish, schedule, manage accounts and database connections etc with the server product (never used the server part before). Another thing, I'm actually in the process of trying to install the evaluation version of the server at the moment but it keeps throwing in invalid key-code error. I contacted BO and after some time they've told me the key is valid. I'm trying to install on CentOS 5.x because we've not got any RHEL or SUSE boxes around - this should work shouldn't it, I'd have thought so - certainly I'd not expect it to cause the key-code problem anyway, but I'm not 100% sure - trying to rule things out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 sadly yes. Whats the question? sadly me to. Business Objects.....**shudder** I think it's touched every man on this planet at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-NEMIE Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted November 4, 2008 Author Share Posted November 4, 2008 Ok, so I've been playing with it for a while. Crystal reports 2008 - no problem, make reports just fine. Crystal reports 2008 server, got that set up, can publish, make folders etc. But, how would I go about exposing just a select set of reports on the internet to the general public without exposing the whole crystal reports server 2008 interface - I must be missing something in how you're meant to go about it. Can anyone offer any clues? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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