CR Report Designer Control ActiveX

If I remember well, 10 years ago, I saw somewhere a Crystal Reports Designer Component (Active X Control), which could be put on a VB6-Form to design new reports from a 3rd-party-application. Special End-User-Licenses were required... I can't remember the original name (perhaps mamba...?).
Does there still exists a such control? I can't find any info again....
What about CR 2008, does there exists something similar?
Tx,
Patrick

Hi Patrick,
That's going back a long time. It may be the RDC, it was the only ActiveX control that I recall we ever had. It's no longer available in CR 2008, RDC and it's complimentary ActiveX Viewer last shipped in CR XI R2.
Only thing available in CR 2008 is the CrystalDecisions.Windows.Forms which can be dropped into a form for a Desktop application. Or there is also a Java based viewer using the JRC.
Thank you
Don

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I use Report Designer Control(RDC) in my program to allow user to modify reports. I made a build and installed the build but when I try to access report designer from program I am getting the error about license.
"This system does not have a valid license, or the evaluation copy of the license has expired. Please contact Business Objects to obtain a Report Design Control license."
I do have valid KeyCode for RDC and i am supplying the same for the merge module too.
My Development Environment
Operating System            :     Windows XP (SP 2)
IDE                                 :     VS 2005 Professional
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Deployment Software        :      InstallShield 12 Premier
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Thanks in Advance,
Sriram.

Hello,
The Report Designer Component (RDC) was never designed to work in Visual Studios .NET. This is because the RDC is an ActiveX COM component and Microsoft has been moving away from ActiveX.
It is also my experience that RCAPI applications - "to allow user to modify reports" - will not work in a Visual Studios application.
It is possible you're getting your error if you had an original CR XI (v11.0) keycode and upgraded to CR XI R2 (v11.5). Original CR XI (v11.0) keycodes will not work. CR XI (v11.0) keycodes do not "unlock" RCAPI functionality in CR XI R2 (v11.5). If you upgraded from CR XI (v11.0) to CR XI R2 (v11.5) you likely have an original CR XI (v11.0) keycode. You will need to get a new CR XI R2 keycode from Business Objects. You can contact the Customer Care team by email - customercareamericas @ businessobjects.com (rebuild the email address) - or by phone - 800-877-2340, option 5. If they need additional information you can ask them to contact me. I'm on the Developer Support team and they should be able to contact me internally.
If you have an original CR XI R2 (v11.5) keycode please make sure to update to at least Service Pack 2 and download updated RDC merge modules from the [Business Objects Software Download Page|https://websmp230.sap-ag.de/sap(bD1lbiZjPTAwMQ==)/bc/bsp/spn/bobj_download/main.htm].
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Embeddable Crystal Reports Designer Control and Visual FoxPro

Post Author: PaulBtci
CA Forum: Other
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Good morning,
I am using "Embeddable Crystal Reports Designer Control" Crystal Report 11 with Visual Basic 6.0.
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or
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Buenos días,
Les comento, estoy utilizando el control "Embeddable Crystal Reports Designer Control" (CRDesignerCtrl11_5) del Crystal Report 11 en un proyecto de Visual Basic 6.0
Cuando cargo un reporte dos veces, se presenta la "vista previa de informe principal". Sin embargo cuando vuelvo a cargar otro reporte no se actualiza la "vista previa de informe principal" sino que se queda con la información cargada anteriormente.
Quisiera saber si existe una forma de acceder al control para actualizar la "vista previa de informe principal", ya que a pesar de dar clic derecho y elegir actualizar no toma los datos del nuevo reporte cargado.
Y si es posible en todo caso desabilitar la "vista previa de informe principal" o hacerlo invisible para que únicamente se presente la pestaña de "Informe Principal".
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Environment
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ASP.NET 2.0
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Background
I am converting ASP application to ASP.NET.
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Thank you very much for your answer.
I solved it.
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Hey Guys
I am having a problem and hope you can help to fix it up
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Set m_Report = Nothing
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Thank Ludek for your responce..
Let me explain code
Referecnes Added:
Crystal Reports Active X Designer Design And Run-Time Library 11.5
Embedable Crystal report Designer Control libaray 11.5
Crystal Active X Report viewere Library 11.5
Code
Dim m_Application As New CRAXDDRT.Application
Dim m_Report As CRAXDDRT.Report
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Embeddable Designer Control

Post Author: fmenditto
CA Forum: General
Is possible to know at runtime wich field have focus in Embeddable Crystal Reports Designer Control ?
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皆さん、こんにちは。
クリスタルレポートXIR2をASP（ASP.NETではない方です）で
表示しているのですが、クライアント側のブラウザにおいて
ActiveXのCrystal ActiveX Report Viewer Control 11.5のインストールに失敗したり、
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うまくインストール出来なかった場合の対処法・再インストール方法などは、
ありますでしょうか？
ご教示下さい。宜しくお願いいたします。
利用形態：ASPを使ったブラウザ上への帳票表示
[サーバの環境]
windows 2003 server R2
Crystal ReportsXI R2 SP6
DB:oracle10g
開発言語：ASP
[クライアントの環境・ブラウザ]
WindowsXP SP3 +IE6
Windows7 32bit +IE8

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Edited by: tamayyy on Nov 22, 2011 4:15 PM

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[1645006 - How to install the Crystal Reports ActiveX Print Control manually?|http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/oss_notes_boj/sdn_oss_boj_bi/sap(bD1lbiZjPTAwMQ==)/bc/bsp/spn/scn_bosap/notes%7B6163636573733d36393736354636443646363436353344333933393338323636393736354637333631373036453646373436353733354636453735364436323635373233443330333033303331333633343335333033303336%7D.do].
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