Product best suited for specific scenario

[Former Member]

I would like someone to be able to point me in the correct direction as to which SAP Crystal reports product will provide the best solution to a scenario that we are trying to solve.

Scenario:

Via a web application that we develop, allow users to run a previously designed crystal report and view within this web application, and export as required.

Currently:

Via VB6 application using CR9 COM object we do this, where COM is used to load the report and give the users the ability to select parameters that get passed to the CR report to run

Findings so far:

I have already downloaded and installed CR Server 2016, but think this is way too complicated option for this scenario,

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

[DellSC · Accepted solution]

You can look at the Crystal for Visual Studio .NET SDK. It's a free download. Go to https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/Crystal+Reports%2C+Developer+for+Visual+Studio+Downloads to get more information and to find the download link. Be sure to read the wiki page - it has lots of information about how to use the SDK. When you get to the download page, the orange button will download the integration for VS. The blue buttons are the various runtime options that are available for use when deploying your application - DO NOT install any of them on the developer workstation.

There are licensing limitations to this - there a link on the wiki page to licensing information. High level, the SDK allows 5 concurrent sessions and up to 100 print jobs. A "print job" is defined as an instance of a report or subreport. For example, if you have a main report that has a subreport in the report header, you have two print jobs, but if you have a subreport in a group header and you have 5 different values for that group, you have 6 print jobs.

If you're going to need more than 5 concurrent users, you'll need to use Crystal Reports Server. There are both Java and .NET SDKs available that will interface with that as well.

-Dell

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks Dell for your response.

I surmise that your answer even though it is the .NET SDK will cater for a web application designed in PHP with user of JAVA scripts?

Regards

[DellSC · Accepted solution]

There is also a "Crystal for Eclipse" java SDK available, but it's not as up to date as the .NET SDK.

-Dell