Embedded SWF in CR - is Java Viewer supported?

We are attempting to embed a XC SWF in a Crystal Report that is essentially a group of buttons that will allow the user to export filtered data from the report to another system for use by that system u2013 basically integrating discovery from the BI app with another app that will be used to act upon the data.
It seems to be working fairly well so far in the DHTML viewer but when we open the Crystal Report in the Java viewer, the SWF is not visible/functional - just a grey bar. Is the java viewer not supported when it comes to embedding XC SWFs? We are currently on BOXI3, SP 1 and FP 1.7... I found some older notes indicating that this was the case a couple years ago, but has that changed? Thanks!
Steve

Hi Don,
When I view the CR via the CR2008 preview tab, everything is fine. I am trying to view the report via infoview with the default viewer set to the java viewer as you guessed. If I view with the DHTML viewer, it also is fine but we need to use the java viewer here because of some other issues that we have with the DHTML viewer (which supposedly are fixed with later SPs).
Here is what I found via another post / white paper that is a little dated:
TECHNICAL DETAILS
Viewing Flash objects embedded in a Crystal Report is supported in the:
u2022 Crystal Reports 2008 Preview tab
u2022 Crystal Reports 2008 .NET Webform viewer
u2022 Crystal Reports 2008 Java DHTML viewer (used in BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.0 and other products)
Exporting and printing of Flash objects with connections to Crystal Reports data is not supported.
Embedded Flash objects that do not have connections to Crystal Reports data can be exported to PDF only.
Data is passed to the Flash object using Crystal Reports string data types. The maximum length of a Crystal Reports string data type is 64K. For this reason, we recommend summarizing the data within Crystal Reports, then passing the summarized data to the Xcelsius model.
This would seem to indicate that the java viewer is not supported, but I am wondering if that is actually true and if it was true, has that changed?
Steve

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I'm creating CR 2008 reports with embedded SWFs as described in the whitepaper [EMBEDDING XCELSIUS 2008 VISUALIZATIONS IN CRYSTAL REPORTS 2008|http://www.businessobjects.com/pdf/product/catalog/crystalreports/cr_xc_integration.pdf].
From CR, I can export the report to html and view the report fine. But when I export to pdf, ppt, etc. The SWFs are not viewable. Is this a bug or by design?
This section of the white paper seems to imply that maybe you cannot export to pdf:
>TECHNICAL DETAILS
>
>Viewing Flash objects embedded in a Crystal Report is supported in the:
>
>Crystal Reports 2008 Preview tab
>Crystal Reports 2008 .NET Webform viewer
>Crystal Reports 2008 Java DHTML viewer (used in BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.0 and other products)
>
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>
>Embedded Flash objects that do not have connections to Crystal Reports data can be exported to PDF only.
I'm using the latest version of Adobe products:
- Adobe Flash Player ActiveX, Version 9.0.124.0
- Adobe Flash Player Plugin, Version 9.0.115.0
- Adobe Reader 9, Version 9.0.0
Also, I downloaded [CR Viewer 2008|http://www.businessobjects.com/product/catalog/crystalreports_viewer/] and can see the CR reports I've created with embedded Xcelsius swfs.
Any information is appreciated. Thanks.
Tim

> ... it states in your first post, the export is not supported,
True. It says:
> Exporting and printing of Flash objects with connections to Crystal Reports data is not supported.
But I can export such reports to html and view and print the flash objects.
It seems inconsistent to me. I can export static flash charts to pdf, yet I cannot export dynamic flash charts to pdf, which is from Adobe, as is Flash?
I'm hoping this is a temporary bug either in Crystal or pdf reader and is to be fixed in a patch release. Or an explanation of why the limitations exist.
Thanks for the response.
Tim

Is Eclipse (java viewer) for CR still being developed?

Hello,
Is the Eclipse (Crystal java viewer) still being invested in from a development perspective? I'm currently using the .NET (HTML) viewer because of two reasons:
1. The Java viewer has embedded flash functions which render it useless on Apple devices.
2. I heard the Java viewer was not going to be supported in favour of the .NET (HTML) viewer.
Can you someone confirm if the Eclipse (Java) viewer is still being developed. Also, is there a version that strips out the Flash functions?
I'd like to drop the HTML viewer because I'm paying $600/year just to run Windows servers just for this viewer!
Thanks for any assistance on this!
Mark

Hi Brummygit,
Yes we are always developing new technology and firmware versions to improve upon what we already offer but I am afraid I cant give you any dates for when you might expect this to be available.
Thx
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*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Cookies
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Cookies
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1) Can we embed swf files using the embed tag in air app for ios, with symbols exported ?
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David
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