All, I'm writing to ask a technical question that hopefully you will be able to help/advise me on. First off, please accept my ignorance on this subject, as Iu2019ve not got a great deal of Crystal experience, but have been charged with trying to investigate whether a suggested solution could be put in place.
So to the problem!! We currently have a web application that interacts with a crystal report server via u201Can APIu201D to run and retrieve a given report. We have a report that is to be run on an ad-hoc basis that takes around 10-20mins to complete due to the complexities of the underlying SQL query, and this connection between web application and the Crystal server times out. Iu2019ve read up on the issue and changed the required set-up/timeout parameters accordingly, but itu2019s not had the desired effect to solve our problem.
So does anyone out there know if there are any ways around this time out? E.g. create a specific API that we could call from our web app that could fire an instant scheduling of the report and passes the useru2019s email address, so that once this report has completed, itu2019s resulting report could be e-mailed out, (and so by pass this web connection time out issue)????
Thanks in advance for any advice/info you could provide, Steve.