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How to lock Design of Crystal Report

Printed From: Crystal Reports Book
Category: Crystal Reports 9 through 2020
Forum Name: Report Design
Forum Discription: The best way to design a report and problems you have encountered
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Printed Date: 28 Apr 2024 at 9:42pm


Topic: How to lock Design of Crystal Report
Posted By: jitugarhwal
Subject: How to lock Design of Crystal Report
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2009 at 1:47am
Hi Experts
 
How Can I lock design of crystal report so that no one can open my report in designer. In file menu-> Option->Save and lock option lock only saving changes in design but anyone can see the report. Is there any option to lock the report at open time. Crystal report should not open without password.
 
 
Regares
 
Jitender   


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Jitender Garhwal


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Posted By: lockwelle
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2009 at 7:23am
this has been addressed in other posts.
 
You can't lock the designer.  You can put the write only flag on the report file, but that is easy to get around and you can still see the structure of the report.
 
The best solution, as I recall, is to not give access the program that designs the report, only install the viewer for the consumers of the reports...they can run the reports, but they can't design them.
 
HTH


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