I am new to crystal reports. Recently I have been working on .Net. Now I have to generate some of the reports,charts using Crystal reports. Previously I have used Manco Charts and other stuff to generate reports But now I have to switch to crstal reports.

 

For security reasons, My application requires that crystal reports should not be connected directly to the database. Instead is there any possibilty that crystal reports can create some adaptors, which can run the protocol which I am presently using to connect to databese.

 

Otherwise can crystal reports generate graphs if we provide the data(which I already pooled from the database and stored in some variables)directly.

 

 

Thanks in advance