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Category: Crystal Reports .NET 2003
Forum Name: Report Design
Forum Discription: The best way to design a report and problems you have encountered
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Topic: crystal report designer should come at runtime
Posted By: niranjana
Subject: crystal report designer should come at runtime
Date 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..
 
niranjana


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Posted By: BrianBischof
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2007 at 1:39pm
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 By: niranjana
Date 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?
 
niranjana

Posted By: BrianBischof
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2007 at 10:20pm
Sorry. Anyone wanting to modify a report needs to have a copy of CR installed on their computer.

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Posted By: niranjana
Date 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
 
niranjana

Posted By: hilfy
Date 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 By: niranjana
Date Posted: 28 Nov 2007 at 8:21pm
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?

Posted By: hilfy
Date 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 By: BrianBischof
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2007 at 7:58am
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 By: niranjana
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2007 at 8:12pm

sir,

thanks a lot

niranjana

Posted By: BrianBischof
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2007 at 9:52pm
Sorry. I have never done this. However, if I were to experiment with it, then i would install VB6 on my computer with the CR tools. Then use the .NET interface to make a reference to the RDC component that was installed with VB6. This can be done by right-clicking on the References category in the .NET solution and then adding it under the COM tab. If that works, then you have to see if it works or not.

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Posted By: nazimocp
Date Posted: 20 Oct 2008 at 11:06pm
Dear Sir,
 
I have to do the Same thing in ASp pages using crystal report 10 plz tell me how i can do that as you mentioned follows.
 
"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"

Posted By: makareem85
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2011 at 8:09pm
Hi Niranjana,
 
I am a new bee in Crystal Reports Development.
 
I am facing the same problem what you have already faced.
 
I want to customize the crystal report design at runtime in ASP.NET.
 
Can we do this?
 
Plz help me.


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