How To Run a Parameterized Report Stored in Crystal Enterprise on demand

I have been integrating into Crystal Enterprise 10 for many years now with no problem. We use .net to schedule and run reports as well some administration tasks. Users can view reports through our asp.net web application using the crystal viewers.
However, I now have a task that requires us to run a report that is stored in CE on demand. This can NOT be done through the viewer because it will not have direct user interaction. The crystal report has to be bundled with other documents and then displayed to the user in a single PDF. I have everything working right now if the report has already been scheduled and ran through CE.
What I can't figure out to do is how to actually run the report in CE on demand and immediately get the results back. I can't schedule it (even for immediate running) because I can't have it backed up in the job server queue. If the report was local on the machine that Integerate with CE, I think it is as simple as loading document, setting parameters, and calling refresh. However, I need this to happen in CE with the RAS or PageServer server. In other words, the execution of the report needs to occur on server and I need the end results.
I have scoured the Net looking for an example but everything either talks about scheduling through Job server or on demand through the viewer.
Hopefully someone can help.

Thanks for the answer Elaine, but I am still not quite there.
We already had interactive on-demand report viewing working through our web app.
The problem is that I need non-interactive on-deman report running. Let me explain the process a little more to help paint the picture of the process we have.
1. While working in our application, the user selects an "information dump" on the selected the employee. This dump is information from a number of different places and document types.
2. The application then goes to each of these different information areas and converts the information to PDF format.
3. Application stitches all the individual PDF files into a single PDF which is what is returned to the user via the web application. The delivery mechanism cannot change due to requirement limitations.
Currently, the information is coming from multiple MS Word mailmerge documents merged "on-the-fly" with data for the employee and a stored HTML worksheet that is also converted to PDF.
We now have to add a PDF version of 2 reports that are ran when the user requests the information dump.
I already have the code to connect to CE and get a reference to the RASReportFactory. We do this today using the interactive viewer. However, we use the viewer to display reports that have already been scheduled and ran. This means we simply make a call to RASReportFactory.OpenReportSource to get the source for the viewer.
We now can't have a viewer in this process. I found the call to the method OpenDocument on RASReportFactory to get a handle to a ReportClientDocument.
I know how to properly set the values for the report arguments as well as the database information.
What I don't see is a method to tell it to run the report. I see Save and SaveAs but this simply saves the document by to CE or to a local file with the changes I made to parms and db info.
What do I call to tell it to execute the report so I can turn around and export it to PDF? Thats the million dollar question.
Edited by: Stephen Barrett on Aug 20, 2008 12:11 AM

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