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niranjana
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   Topic: crystal report designer should come at runtime
Posted: 21 Nov 2007 at 10:47pm |
i am using asp.net2.0 with crystal report 10.
i want to develop an application where i will create a blank report at design time.
at runtime in a button click event the end user should see the designer itself so that he can modify the existing report..
how can i do this...i don't have any idea..
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BrianBischof
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Posted: 22 Nov 2007 at 1:39pm |
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Unfortunately, this isn't possible. This functionality isn't included because Business Objects probably feels that if you could write a free report designer using the free CR tools in VS.NET, then they would probably go out of business very quickly. To allow your users to design reports from scratch, they need to get a copy of CR as well.
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Posted: 22 Nov 2007 at 8:32pm |
sir,
thank you for the reply.
but i have some more doubts.
during design time the developer is going to design the crystal reports.
at runtime the end user be able to modify that report only....according to his needs....he is not going to create a new report .
is it possible?
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Posted: 22 Nov 2007 at 10:20pm |
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Sorry. Anyone wanting to modify a report needs to have a copy of CR installed on their computer.
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Posted: 23 Nov 2007 at 8:48pm |
sir,
i have one more doubt regarding this issue.
in vb6.0 we can create an application where the end user be able to modify the crystal design using Embedded crystal desinger something like that..i don't know this...because i haven't worked with vb6.0
somebody has given me some details regarding this...i will give that below
"The Microsoft Visual Basic sample application uses the Report Designer Component (RDC) as the reporting development tool. This sample demonstrates using the Report Creation API (RCAPI) calls.
The Report Creation API calls allow you to create report objects at runtime:
Such report objects include: text, database field, unbound field, blob field, chart, special, box,
cross-tab, line, picture, summary and subreport objects.
also an end user can modify the desiger at runtime using embedded designer...."
but i haven't find anything lilke embedded designer in asp.net ...
so i am confused in all matter...
waiting for the reply
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Posted: 28 Nov 2007 at 9:54am |
The Report Design Component has been deprecated and will not be available in the future. It will work with Crystal 10, but BO will not be updating it and there is no guarantee that it will work with any future versions of Crystal.
-Dell
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Posted: 28 Nov 2007 at 8:21pm |
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i am using crystal 10 with vs2005. so can i use crystal designer at runtime for the use of end user?if so please give me an idea how can i use that?
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Posted: 29 Nov 2007 at 6:33am |
AFAIK, the RDC component is not .NET enabled - it works in a regular ASP page. I haven't used the component - just researched it when we were determining how to handle a specific situation in our application - and I'm not yet familiar with ASP.NET, so I'm afraid I can't help with this one.
Brian, do you have any info on this?
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Posted: 29 Nov 2007 at 7:58am |
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You are right, the RDC is not .NET compatible. That said, when I talked to BOBJ they said that some people have got it working, but they don't support it and they never tested it themselves. So you have to use it at your own risk. Plus, there won't be any documentation on it either.
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Posted: 02 Dec 2007 at 8:12pm |
sir,
thanks a lot
niranjana
Edited by niranjana - 19 Dec 2007 at 5:06am
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