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Oct 09, 2007 at 10:20 AM

Are .RPT files portable between native, .NET and Java viewers ?

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I am trying to understand the nature of the .RPT report files and I am hoping someone can help.

We have a requirement to develop some reports in Crystal and have them offered out via a Web UI.

My questions are:

1) If the PRT file is designed on the Crystal Reports 10 client can we simply drop that RPT file into a JSP/.NET app environment and have the viewer on each display the report without modification?

2) Is their some accepted mechanism to set-up the DB connection to the RPT file externally ?

3) We have to do something quick and dirty, very quickly and dirty (probably in .NET) does anyone know of any examples/samples that can do this sort of thing ?

As a little history, the backend DB is Oracle and it is inaccessible to us during development. The reports are going to be developed on-site and we are being asked to create an engine to allow the user to select, display and export them via a browser interface. We are looking at a number of approaches, but it's likely to be either a Tomcat hosted JSP or .NET ASPX front-end. We have more experience with .NET, but the client will likely move it all to JSP/JSF, etc later on. Thus we would like whatever reports we create to be near transparently portable between all the viewing environments.

Thanks in advance for your assistance

Al