Technical Questions
 Crystal Reports Forum : Crystal Reports 9 through 2022 : Technical Questions
Message Icon Topic: [RESOLVED] How to protect the crystal reports.... Post Reply Post New Topic
Author Message
intellogo
Newbie
Newbie


Joined: 05 Apr 2007
Location: United Kingdom
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 10
Quote intellogo Replybullet Topic: [RESOLVED] How to protect the crystal reports....
    Posted: 05 Apr 2007 at 9:48pm
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
Regards,
intellogo
IP IP Logged
BrianBischof
Admin Group
Admin Group
Avatar

Joined: 09 Nov 2006
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 2458
Quote BrianBischof Replybullet Posted: 06 Apr 2007 at 1:01am
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?
Please support the forum! Tell others by linking to it on your blog or website:<a href="http://www.crystalreportsbook.com/forum/">Crystal Reports Forum</a>
IP IP Logged
BrianBischof
Admin Group
Admin Group
Avatar

Joined: 09 Nov 2006
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 2458
Quote BrianBischof Replybullet Posted: 06 Apr 2007 at 1:02am
Export them to PDF so that users can view the data but not modify the RPT file.
Please support the forum! Tell others by linking to it on your blog or website:<a href="http://www.crystalreportsbook.com/forum/">Crystal Reports Forum</a>
IP IP Logged
hilfy
Admin Group
Admin Group
Avatar

Joined: 20 Nov 2006
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 3702
Quote hilfy Replybullet 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
IP IP Logged
intellogo
Newbie
Newbie


Joined: 05 Apr 2007
Location: United Kingdom
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 10
Quote intellogo Replybullet Posted: 06 Apr 2007 at 10:51pm
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
Regards,
intellogo
IP IP Logged
BrianBischof
Admin Group
Admin Group
Avatar

Joined: 09 Nov 2006
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 2458
Quote BrianBischof Replybullet Posted: 06 Apr 2007 at 11:26pm
I've never used DSRs before. Can you fill me in on how you used this to solve your problem?
Please support the forum! Tell others by linking to it on your blog or website:<a href="http://www.crystalreportsbook.com/forum/">Crystal Reports Forum</a>
IP IP Logged
intellogo
Newbie
Newbie


Joined: 05 Apr 2007
Location: United Kingdom
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 10
Quote intellogo Replybullet 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.
Regards,
intellogo
IP IP Logged
BrianBischof
Admin Group
Admin Group
Avatar

Joined: 09 Nov 2006
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 2458
Quote BrianBischof Replybullet Posted: 07 Apr 2007 at 12:22am
Ah yes. What Dell was talking about in her post is the .NET equivalent of VB6's DSRs. Thanks.
Please support the forum! Tell others by linking to it on your blog or website:<a href="http://www.crystalreportsbook.com/forum/">Crystal Reports Forum</a>
IP IP Logged
Post Reply Post New Topic
Printable version Printable version

Forum Jump
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot create polls in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum



This page was generated in 0.000 seconds.