Using Crystal Reports on a webserver without installation

Hello,
I'm sure this has been asked before, but I cannot seem to find it.
Is it possible in any way to use Crystal Reports.NET (VS2008) on a production server without installing the merge modules, runtimes, etc for an ASP.NET 2.0 web app?
I'm moving hosts, and my new host uses a shared server architecture, and I cannot install any third party apps on it. I'd like to be able to continue to use the current functionality in my web app, but it requires CR.

Hello,
There is no supported method of using Crystal Reports without deploying the appropriate runtime files. Since Crystal Reports is not fully managed by the .NET framework this additional step is required.
Sincerely,
Dan Kelleher

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Can you use Crystal Reports on a webpage without having to use session?

In all of the examples I have seen it shows using the session to store the reportdocument object between postbacks. That means that clicking the page buttons fires a postback. Other reporting tools such as PDF, ActiveReports, and others do not have to do this. Is this a limitation of Crystal and a COM backend or is it just a common sample and not the only option?
How do you get paging to work without having to use session and do postbacks? AJAX, Javascript, converting to a PDF, etc. would all be possible ways to not require a postback.
My problem is that I am using SQL Server to store the session and the reportdocument object is not serializeable. I have been told I can buy Crystal Report Server for $5000 and this will work. But in reality I can buy other reporting tool for $500 or convert them to SQL Reporting and it will work as well. So I am trying to be reasonable and figure out what I need to do. That seems like a bit much to need a whole server application to serve the reports just to turn on paging for a couple of simple reports. I'm hoping there is a way to not use session to get paging to work.
I have consider pushing the report into viewstate and not session. But I would rather not push it into either. Is this a valid option?
What is the typical way to handle this sort of thing? Do you really have to push it into session to get the CrystalReportViewer control to page on an ASPX page. What other options are there?
Any suggestions, thoughts, or ideas would be very much appreciated. This is causing enough of a problem where the company is asking me to look at alternatives if we cannot solve this.
Best regards,
Jon

Acrobat doesnu2019t cause postbacks when paging because the acrobat reader installed locally, so its viewing is in a client-side control. I imagine the same thing is the case for ActiveReports (some sort of client-side activex control installed).
If the winform viewer was used on in your web page, then you wouldnu2019t get postbacks either, but then you'd need Crystal Reports runtime on the client to view in that control. And placing a winviewer in a web page give me shivers...
So, to avoid using session, recreate the reportdocument and re-load the report on postbacks.
As Surabh mentioned, you can serialize the report but you will have to use teh InProc RAS. There is an issue thought; you start to get load errors and otehr errors after viewing 3 reports. I belive this has been reported to R&D for a fix comment, but I do not have and ETA at this time. The code for the InProc RAS SDK would be as follows:
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            Dim rpt As New CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument
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            Button1.Visible = False
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            x = ViewState("SerializedDoc").ToString()
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        End If
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- Ludek
Edited by: Ludek Uher on Dec 9, 2011 11:16 AM

Deploying a report to the end user without using Crystal Reports Server

Hello,
I'm using Crystal Reports Professional XI.
I finished creating a report that contains several subreports. Now it's time for me to deploy the report to the end user so that they can start running it. The company that I'm doing this consulting work for does not have Crystal Reports Server setup so what is the best approach to deploying this report to the end user? For now it would just be one user using the report but down the road there could be other people within his department that are running it as well.
if you have any questions or need additional information to answer my posting just let me know. Have a good day.
Regards,
Ting

Hi Ting,
I see now.... In older versions of CR like 8.5 there was a Deployment Wizard one could use to compile the report and runtime into an executable to run on an end users PC so that user could preview and refresh the reports.
That ability stopped as of CR 8.5 or earlier, I don't recall exactly now.
Yes, if they want to be able to run your report they will need to install a copy of Crystal Reports, then just send them your RPT file, they can then set Database location to their DB Source and then preview and refresh the report as required.
Or as mentioned use a third party app to do the same or write your own. It's quite simple to do and likely one of our samples applications is all you need with a few basic changes, report source and DB log on info would need to be updated.
As for licensing, the end user must purchase a copy of Crystal Reports to be able to use your application. Third Party app's would include the licensing mostly but check with them if you go that way.
The convenient part is if the users want to write their own reports they can.
And for your sake if you want to protect your reports the next version of CR has a read only RPT file format that all the user can do is preview and refresh the report. They can not edit it in anyway.
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Don

Can not use crystal reports 2008

Hi All
I m not able to use crystal reports on windows server. I can use it everyehere bt not on the server i dnt know if the problem is bcoz it's a 64bit machine or not.
We are using .Net application.
Thanks in advance.
Anita

Hi Anita
Crystal Reports 2008 doesnu2019t have 64 bit support or runtime hence you are getting the attached error.
To run the application with Crystal reports there are two workarounds:
1. Run the IIS under 32 bit mode so that your application will use 32 bit Crystal Reports runtimes.
For this please do the steps mentioned below:
1.When compiling the application in Visual Studio .NET 2008 you will need to force it to 32 bit mode.
You can do this by right-clicking the project name in the Solution Explorer.
2.For VB.NET
Click Compile, then Advanced Compile Options. For the Target CPU drop down box, change it from "AnyCPU" to "x86" then click OK.
3.For C#.NET
Click Build and change the Platform Target option from "Any CPU" to "x86".
Now follow the steps mentioned in the Kbase article from below link:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894435
You should then be able to run the application on a 64 bit OS without error.
The second workaround is
To change the references in your web application to CR 10.5 i.e. Crystal Reports basic for Visual Studio 2008. Crystal Reports 10.5 has the runtime for 64 bit machine.
For this:
1. Uninstall Crystal Reports 2008 from your machine.
2. Run the set up file for Visual Studio 2008 (from CD or the installation source that you use).
3. Click on Repair.
4. From the list of components select Crystal Reports 10.5 and click on Next.
5. After the repair is done you should be able to use the application using Crystal Reports.
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We are using Crystal report 2008 in VS 2008. Everything working fine in local but when we deployed it in the server we are getting the below while print the report.
"An error occurred on the server. Printing will be stopped. Would you like to view the error information"
Anyhow the report is printing but I don't know why this error is occur and how to stop this. I had installed the CR runtime in the server. I dont know what is going wrong. The same we tested locally in a non crystal report installed PC.
Please help me to get rid out of this error.
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Natraj

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This one may be best resolved over the phone. Phone support can be obtained here:
http://store.businessobjects.com/store/bobjamer/en_US/pd/productID.98078100?resid=S6I@hgoHAkEAAGsiyVkAAAAR&rests=1282226845369
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Using crystal reports to generate invoices

Post Author: samme
CA Forum: General
I'm writing a report for a client who wants to print multiple invoices using crystal reports. The invoice needs to sort in date order, one date and information associated with that date on each page. Each page has a subtotal since multiple items/services are linked ot one date. The last page of the invoice needs to have the total and should at the bottom of the page with the last subtotal. Not onlastrecord does not work because if the user prints multiple invoices, crystal doesn't see the "last record" until the last record of the last invoice.
The client wants the normal invoice information on the first page of the invoice: Company Logo, Customer Address, Company Info, Invoice #, Date, etc. as well as the column headers - quantity, unit of measure, price, etc.
On all other pages of the invoice, the client wants, the company logo, the invoice # and the column headers.
I have the report grouped by invoice number and then by a date formula. I cannot seem to get where I need to be with this invoice and have been working on it for some time. Can anyone give me some direction please.....
Thanks in advance!

On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 16:46:48 GMT, "Bill Bradley"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>I know. We thought that the Report Builder would be the way to go,
since
>ART didn't do too much for us. You guys poorly document it, and,
show no
>examples of using it to build a report. In addition, it'd be nice if
>SOMEONE would come up with a list of what tables show what. While
Novell
>may have a detailed list of things in the ZFD docs, it's pretty much
so
>detailed and complex that, it's next to useless. I've resorted to
doing
>huge dumps of things to a csv, then, using CR or Excel to generate
some kind
>of report.
>
>The whole process is not as easy as it should be, seeing that we paid
money
>to get a reporting vehicle.
>
>As comparison, SMS isn't any easier, but, there's more documentation
on it,
>so, when you're forced to roll your own report, it's a clearer
path...
I do understand, I'm not a programmer either :-(
the company who wrote report builder is Digital Metaphors, they have a
very good
training application and additional detailed information of how to
write
reports.
The CIM schema is I agree Cr** (well not easy) and without the detail
that
Novell provide it doesn't work.
I hope that a friend of mine is going to provide the compromise that
you and I
are looking for. Namely the ability to create the SQL queries that
ART can
make, with a simple report system. Keep an eye on caledonia.net for
an
announcement for ART4 (Derived from but unrelated to Salford
Software's
product) :-)
Tim
No Direct e-Mail Please!
Tim Heywood
Independent Consultant
Scotland
Novell Support Connection SYSOP
In theory, practice and theory are the same,
In practice they are different!

Error when use Crystal report Bundled Version with Vs2003 on Windows Vista

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Uninstall CRVS2010 that you currently have installed.
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- Ludek

Problems with concurrency tests using Crystal Reports for VS 2005

Post Author: condeagustin
CA Forum: General Feedback
Hi
My name is Agustin and Im using Crystal Reports for VS 2005
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I created a COM+ object in c# and everytime the
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it reads an xml file from a database, then it feeds the report with this
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ServerServer
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3. Then I executed again 100 threads (WITHOUT shutting down the
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store the data of the xml file!
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(cause once is created the object works great and the pdf is generated
perfectly!), the problem is with the com+ TRYING to create another instance
of my object given that test scenario. Help me please, What do you
suggest?
The production server has this specifications:
Operative System: Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 2
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RAM: 820MB
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I hope your answer and thank you
Agustín Conde Martí

Post Author: John Werner Enoksen
CA Forum: General Feedback
Hi, im about to write a simular solution where I will use VS2008/Com+ to be in compliance to an existing solition written in VB6.0, so I was googling to look for bumps. Did you figure this one out?
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Creating Employee Badges using Crystal Report.

Hi,
I have a requirement where i have to create Badges for Employees using Crystal Reports. The report is created but the issue here is when i generate the PDF output, apart from the portion of the rectangular Badge, there is lot of white spaces on the report and when i give it for printing, the entire PDF with white space is also coming up. I tried with resizing the crystal report but it did not worked. I want only the rectangular portion of the badge to come on the PrintPreview which can then be given for Print. Is it something to do with the print setting? I am using a special kind of printer(Evolis-Pebble) which is used to print badge cards.
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Dear all expert,
There is a report in CRM PRD which our ABAP programmer had did one which is complicated and invovlving FM and method. but since we had purchase BOBJ, we would like to develop this report by using crystal report. Is it possible?
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Via Crystal Report XI, when I designed reports, I used Database Location as my project file where I stored a copy of the .mdb file.
Prior to creating an "installaltion setup" package, I will create a Directory in Program Files. Let's use and example--I'll call the Directory in Program Files "Sports" so what I do is to copy the ".mdb" file to this directory and change the database location in the rpt files to "C:\Program Files\Sports".
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Thanks,
Sam

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Using Crystal Reports on a Citrix server

Post Author: rmarty
CA Forum: Deployment
I have a 2003 .net windows application that internal crystal reports built in using Crystal 11 SP2. On a basic client the merge modules and the reports run fine without incident.
This does not work on a Citrix server. I get a report load error.
Does the CR 11 Runtime need to be installed on the Citrix server?
Is there some special procedures or applications I need to install?
I don't believe I should have to install a server license for this to work or be licensed.
Anyone have experience with CR11 in a windows application running on a Citrix server?

Hello,
There is no supported method of using Crystal Reports without deploying the appropriate runtime files. Since Crystal Reports is not fully managed by the .NET framework this additional step is required.
Sincerely,
Dan Kelleher

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On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 16:46:48 GMT, "Bill Bradley"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>I know. We thought that the Report Builder would be the way to go,
since
>ART didn't do too much for us. You guys poorly document it, and,
show no
>examples of using it to build a report. In addition, it'd be nice if
>SOMEONE would come up with a list of what tables show what. While
Novell
>may have a detailed list of things in the ZFD docs, it's pretty much
so
>detailed and complex that, it's next to useless. I've resorted to
doing
>huge dumps of things to a csv, then, using CR or Excel to generate
some kind
>of report.
>
>The whole process is not as easy as it should be, seeing that we paid
money
>to get a reporting vehicle.
>
>As comparison, SMS isn't any easier, but, there's more documentation
on it,
>so, when you're forced to roll your own report, it's a clearer
path...
I do understand, I'm not a programmer either :-(
the company who wrote report builder is Digital Metaphors, they have a
very good
training application and additional detailed information of how to
write
reports.
The CIM schema is I agree Cr** (well not easy) and without the detail
that
Novell provide it doesn't work.
I hope that a friend of mine is going to provide the compromise that
you and I
are looking for. Namely the ability to create the SQL queries that
ART can
make, with a simple report system. Keep an eye on caledonia.net for
an
announcement for ART4 (Derived from but unrelated to Salford
Software's
product) :-)
Tim
No Direct e-Mail Please!
Tim Heywood
Independent Consultant
Scotland
Novell Support Connection SYSOP
In theory, practice and theory are the same,
In practice they are different!

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I am using Crystal reports XI R2 and using the Universal Web Connector (connecting to Coghead). When I put some some of the fields from the database and run Preview I get "Failed to retrieve data from the database." . Where is this message coming from and how can I track down what the issue is?

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You can find the supported platforms document in below link
http://support.businessobjects.com/documentation/supported_platforms/xi_release2/default.asp
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