Crystal Report Sharing

Mary,
The other distribution option is using the Crystal Web Component Server
(Crystal 8.0) or Cystal Enterprise (Crystal 8.5). With this method, you set
up an internal Web Server on a NT, Win2K or XP Pro workstation. Once set
up, your users access the reports via their web browser and view the report
seeing live data. It works really well for us once it is set up properly.
It has two advantages over the 'compiled' method of reporting.

1. You don't need ODBC set up on each client computer.
2. Reports are located in one place on the server, and once created they can
be modified without affecting the client installation.

Troy Funte
Liberty Electronics

-----Original Message-----
From: Mary Horsey [mailto:mhorsey@...]
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 7:33 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Crystal Report Sharing


I have written a crystal report that I want other users in Vantage to be
able to refresh and print. It is my understanding that they do not need a
full version of Crystal to do this. But when I go to their computers to
try
and open the report, it asks me what program to use to open it. I just
can't figure out how to save this report so that the other users can work
with it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Mary Horsey
HR Manager
Greene Rubber Company
20 Cross Street
Woburn, MA 01801
781-497-1851 (p)
781-937-9739 (f)


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I have written a crystal report that I want other users in Vantage to be
able to refresh and print. It is my understanding that they do not need a
full version of Crystal to do this. But when I go to their computers to try
and open the report, it asks me what program to use to open it. I just
can't figure out how to save this report so that the other users can work
with it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Mary Horsey
HR Manager
Greene Rubber Company
20 Cross Street
Woburn, MA 01801
781-497-1851 (p)
781-937-9739 (f)
I am currently using Crystal 8.5 developer. I downloaded a compiler from
the crystal site . This compiler, as I understand it, was included with
older versions but now they are going to phase it out. It compiles any .rpt
file into a .exe. It will also create a setup program for distribution to
other computers. A couple of things I have had to do: 1) Use a server DSN
instead of a file DSN, 2) Change the users default printer to the one used
when creating the report, or you get this error "cannot open SQL server". 3)
Run the "left outer join fix" for each user, or you get this error "error in
database dll" 4) Make sure the user has a drive mapped to the data base or
you get this error "setup routines for the Merant 3.60 32-bit Progress ...
could not be loaded due to system error code 126". Hope this helps.

Mark Dupuis
Ranor, Inc.
Bella Drive
Westminster, MA 01473
Tel: (978) 874-0591 X221
Fax: (978) 874-2748
Email: dupuism@...


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-----Original Message-----
From: Mary Horsey [mailto:mhorsey@...]
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 7:33 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Crystal Report Sharing


I have written a crystal report that I want other users in Vantage to be
able to refresh and print. It is my understanding that they do not need a
full version of Crystal to do this. But when I go to their computers to
try
and open the report, it asks me what program to use to open it. I just
can't figure out how to save this report so that the other users can work
with it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Mary Horsey
HR Manager
Greene Rubber Company
20 Cross Street
Woburn, MA 01801
781-497-1851 (p)
781-937-9739 (f)


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