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How employees can work at same time on crystal reports?

mmagdy10
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Scenario:

I need to use crystal reports for a company that has 12 different departments and each department has their employees. Let's say about 10 employees want to create reports on crystal. Questions:1. Can you help me which package should I buy?
2. And if the employees I mentioned earlier want to use the program at the same time, what should they do?
3. And what's the difference between employee and receipt in permissions (found on crystal reports pricing page)?
4. And if there is a report the employee created with dynamic parameters, will the receipt change parameters values in the crystal viewer at runtime to see the results?

mmagdy10
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Please help me as much as possible faster so I can proceed to purchase step.

Thanks

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DellSC
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Licenses for Crystal Reports are per user. So, each user who will be designing reports will have to have their own license for Crystal.

Will these users be running reports for others? Will reports be integrated into other applications? Do you need a solution for scheduling and delivering reports?

-Dell

mmagdy10
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Each department has about 1-2 employees to create reports. So in total we are talking about 10 departments with total 10-20 employees. They will need to create reports at same time. So what should I do in this case?

They need to export the report from Crystal Reports as link and share it in .Net system, is that possible?

DellSC
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If, as Ido suggests, you mean that they need to run reports that have already been created, you can use his viewer suggestion. Or, there is a .NET SDK that can be used to integrate the reports into your application. For more information about the SDK see the Crystal for Visual Studio wiki. Pay particular attention to the licensing information the wiki links to - the SDK will allow up to 5 concurrent users and 100 print jobs. (See this blog for info about print jobs.)

If you know you're going to need more than 5 concurrent users or if you want to be able to schedule reports and have them delivered - either to users or a specific file location - you may want to look at SAP Crystal Reports Server (CRS), which is a system that will handle all of that. There's also an SDK that you can use to interact with this software as well.

Finally, each person who is designing reports, either to run themselves or for other folks to run, will have to have their own license for SAP Crystal Reports - even if you have CRS.

-Dell

mmagdy10
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Great, Thanks

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ido_millet
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Most likely, when you say "create" you actually mean "Run" an existing Crystal report to view/print/export it. One of the options is to use a 3rd-party Crystal Reports viewer. Ken Hamady maintains a list of those here. These viewers typically open a temporary copy of the report definition, so there is not locking problem, and multiple employees can run the same report at the same time. Yes, parameters are fine.

The employees that truly need to design (create) or change report designs should have Crystal Reports Designer licenses.