CRVS2010 beta -engine required to reside on the client side dynamic filter?

[Former Member]

Hi, I am an experienced CR developer for server side applications and databases, but new to .NET development and deployment for web applications.

I have a deployment/licensing question for which I would really appreciate help with: In a client server architecture, in order to take advantage of the new features in CR/Visual Studio 2010 which allows for dynamic filtering and sorting of the saved data, do you need to deploy the CR report engine on the client side as well as the server side?

Thanks

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Edited by: Don Williams on Sep 8, 2010 12:36 PM

[former_member183750 · Accepted solution]

Nothing is needed on the client side for web apps. All runtime only needs to be installed on the web server. The print engine streams a DHTML viewer to the client.

Re. details of licensing. As long as you run the web app internally, you are licensed. Deploying externally will require extra licensing and you'll be better off asking sales (866-681-3435) for details on this.

Ludek

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[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks so much for your quick answer.

Is there an article or book (preferably online) that you can recommend that will help me understand how Crystal Reports fits into the MVC framework of .NET in production environments. (as I mentioned I am new to web development and .NET framework and reading on MVC framework and its 3 tier architecture.)

I am assuming that the CR report engine would reside on the server as part of control tier and that if the database (model tier) reside on a different server than CR report engine (control tier) server, it would not cause a problem.

Thanks

[former_member183750 · Accepted solution]

See if the following will help:

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/208edbbf-671e-2b10-d7b5-9b57a832...

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/index?rid=/library/uuid/2081b4d9-6864-2b10-f49d-918baefc7a23&overrid...

http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/boexir31/en/crsdk_net_dg_12_en.chm

http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/boexir31/en/crsdk_net_apiRef_12_en.chm

https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/CrystalReportsfor.NETSDK+Samples

Ludek