Making Crystal reports to external customers

Hi
Im making reports for external customers. What do they need to install to see the reports? They have SAP and a database server. Is it enough with a crystal runtime? or do they need to change the connection to their own database and therefor need Crystal 2008 Basic to do that? I´m new with SAP but familiar to Crystal.
//Elle

Hi Elle,
Yes they will likely need to set location manually but not completely sure. The integration forum can verify this if you are using that plug-in.
What ever works best for you. ODBC is old technology and MS wanted to get rid of supporting it so OLE DB is the most current or using the native drivers if that works also. If using ODBC then just creating the DSN the reports should work. OLE DB requires the DB server name to be the same as yours so it would require them to set location also, same using the native DB drivers.
Not sure what the best ways to get the reprots to them. Not enough info. If theya re not using Businessobjects Enterprise where you publish the reports to their system then simply sending the report via e-mail will work also.
Thank you
Don

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