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intellogo
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   Topic: [RESOLVED] How to protect the crystal reports....
Posted: 05 Apr 2007 at 9:48pm |
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Hi ,
I have designed my reports in Crystal Report 11 product and imported the path name of the XYZ.rpt report into my VB6 project.
Now...How do i protect my .RPT reports, so that normal customers cannot edit them, if they have CR 11 at their own computer ??
Can someone throw some light on this.
Awaiting reply....
Edited by intellogo - 07 Apr 2007 at 12:54am
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Posted: 06 Apr 2007 at 1:01am |
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Can't do it that I know of. All reports are unprotected. Has anyone heard of any tools that might be able to do this?
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Posted: 06 Apr 2007 at 1:02am |
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Export them to PDF so that users can view the data but not modify the RPT file.
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Posted: 06 Apr 2007 at 11:52am |
It depends on what you mean by "Protect"....
If you want to protect the data in them, use Brian's suggestion to export the.
If you want to protect the .rpt design files so that user's can't modify them in Crystal, I'm not sure there's a way to do that in VB6. If you were in .NET, you could compile them into your application so that you wouldn't be distributing the actual .rpt files.
-Dell
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Posted: 06 Apr 2007 at 10:51pm |
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I have found the solution of protecting the reports via DSRs..EXCELLENT !!
Just wanted to propagate this in the forum....
This thread is SOLVED. I could not find any tool to mark this thread as RESOLVED
Edited by intellogo - 06 Apr 2007 at 11:14pm
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Posted: 06 Apr 2007 at 11:26pm |
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I've never used DSRs before. Can you fill me in on how you used this to solve your problem?
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Posted: 06 Apr 2007 at 11:52pm |
Originally posted by BrianBischof
I've never used DSRs before. Can you fill me in on how you used this to solve your problem?
.DSR is a VB6 Designer Module.
They are accessed in the component dialog box and Poject Explorer
So if i use this, then i can transform the .RPT reports into .DSR and finally i have got one .EXE file containing my reports and code...SECURED !
This process is irreversible but too secure !! .RPT files must be backed up for future editing.
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Posted: 07 Apr 2007 at 12:22am |
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Ah yes. What Dell was talking about in her post is the .NET equivalent of VB6's DSRs. Thanks.
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