The Crystal Management Console is only available through Crystal Enterprise as far as I'm aware. Actually, you might have the Crystal Enterprise disk with your CR Pro 8.5 software. The company that I worked for received Crystal Enterprise for free as a separate disk when they bought CR Pro 8.5. The disk was in the same packaging as CR Pro. I believe that Crystal Enterprise was intended to replace report executables that are put on user's workstations. Crystal Enterprise is integrated with IIS (or some other options) to be used as a report distribution tool. It uses your web browser to access the reports. It's a pretty cool tool!
As far as I'm aware, CR Pro does not have the feature to allow for "saving of the db password" when a user needs to access a report. The password is needed locally to pass the db information through ODBC. Crystal Enterprise, on the other hand, allows for storing of the password on the report level so that way the user does not need to enter it in (normally).
~Wendy
server?? We are using CR Pro 8.5 for Epicor. Does it have this
feature? I am looking for a place to enter the db password so the
user doesn't have to enter it each time they run a report...
As far as I'm aware, CR Pro does not have the feature to allow for "saving of the db password" when a user needs to access a report. The password is needed locally to pass the db information through ODBC. Crystal Enterprise, on the other hand, allows for storing of the password on the report level so that way the user does not need to enter it in (normally).
~Wendy
>>> joeyloken@... 07/15/03 12:23PM >>>Is the Crystal Report Management Console only available on the
server?? We are using CR Pro 8.5 for Epicor. Does it have this
feature? I am looking for a place to enter the db password so the
user doesn't have to enter it each time they run a report...
--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "Dan Tisone" <dtisone@b...> wrote:
> It's under the Crystal Management Console, Global Management
Settings.
> I see what you are talking about but the data is view only, not
> editable. Right now I am passing the credentials along with the
report
> to the Crystal Server like so:
>
> http://PriceList.rpt?user0=odbcuser&password0=odbcuser
>
> If you guys found a way to hard code these credentials into the
Crystal
> Configuration, let me know because it would solve my sub-report
> credential problem.
>
> Wendy - When you get a chance to check it, would you contact me
> off-group?
>
> Dan Tisone
> Operations / IT Consultant
> dan.tisone@b...
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WENDY BOWEN [mailto:WENDY.BOWEN@c...]
> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 1:54 PM
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [Vantage] FW: Problem running reports using Crystal
> Enterprise
>
>
> The standard version. I would like to use the Pro version, but I
know
> it's very pricey.
>
> It's under Enterprise's Report Configuration menu. There is a
database
> tab that gives you these options. I don't have Enterprise up, but I
> believe the tab is called "Database". Someone please correct me if
I'm
> wrong.
>
> ~Wendy
>
>
> >>> dtisone@b... 07/14/03 04:43PM >>>
> Are you folks talking about the Standard version or Professional
> version?? I have the Standard version and do not see some of the
items
> you are talking about
>
> Dan Tisone
> Operations / IT Consultant
> dan.tisone@b...
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WENDY BOWEN [mailto:WENDY.BOWEN@c...]
> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 12:32 PM
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [Vantage] FW: Problem running reports using Crystal
> Enterprise
>
>
> Mary,
>
> I don't have Enterprise up right now, but do you have a "Database"
tab?
> If I remember correctly there is a "database" tab under the
Enterprise
> Report configuration that needs to have the report username and
password
> entered.
>
> ~Wendy
>
>
> >>> mhorsey@g... 07/14/03 03:18PM >>>
> Wendy,
>
> Yes, we have entered the username and password for the report in the
> properties portion under INSTANCES. The status report
showed "Cannot
> open SQL server", no other details were provided.
>
> Mary
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WENDY BOWEN [mailto:WENDY.BOWEN@c...]
> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 1:57 PM
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Vantage] FW: Problem running reports using Crystal
> Enterprise
>
>
> Mary, dumb question, but did you set the report's settings in the
> Enterprise Report Configuration Manager? Also, in this area it
allows
> you to set the password of the database for the report so that way
you
> don't have to "login" each time you run the report. If you find
that the
> login prompt reappears over and over again, I know that Seagate has
a
> patch for that.
>
> ~Wendy
>
>
> >>> mhorsey@g... 07/14/03 01:47PM >>>
> We have recently installed a Crystal Enterprise web server and
loaded a
> few test reports on it. It seems that we have a problem connecting
the
> report to the Progress (9.1D) server when trying to run the
reports. The
> left site of the screen flashed "Loading" very quickly after we
provided
> the login information to the database, and the login prompt
reappears.
>
> In ODBC control panel, we were able to test a connection
successfully.
> Is there a special procedure for connecting Crystal Enterprise to
the
> Progress database?
>
> Thanks in advance for your input.
>
> Mary Horsey
> Greene Rubber Company
> 20 Cross Street
> Woburn MA 01801
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> 781-937-9739 (fax)
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