Printing a Crystal Report XI in Business Objects from Access (VB)

Post Author: karene
CA Forum: Other
I have a report that is stored in the BusinessObjects (and I'm new to this system). I can open it from Access using VB, by running iexplore.exe and giving it the correct URL:
stAppName = "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe " & GetReclassificationReportURL() & _ "&lsS@type=site&lsS@id=" & SiteId Call Shell(stAppName, 1)
where the GetReclassificationReportURL returns something like https://xidesign.ourdomain/businessobjects/enterprise115/InfoView/scripts/OpenDocument.aspx?iDocID=24321825
This opens Crystal, and they can view or print the report. However, when they were using the corresponding Access report, it would print for them directly. They could press a print button, and it would come out on their default printer. Can I do that using Crystal? How? (I'm using Access 2003, and VB 6.3)
Thank you for any assistance you can provide.
-karene

Post Author: RamcoSystems
CA Forum: Deployment
Hai,
Installation of BOXI does not not include Crystal Reports as a part of it?If yes, then does the crystalreportviewer ship along with BOXI?

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