Is there any 3rd-party tool that can refresh RPTR (Read-Only) files?
I don't want to deliver the RPT files to the clients, I don't want them to access the Design.
Please advise
Thank you
All the modern ones can.
The SAP Crystal Reports Viewer can't, but the 3rd-party ones (those that use the runtime for Crystal 2011 or later) can.
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Is anyone know any tools to convert crystal report files to jreport files?
I have hundreds of crystal report files need to be migrated to the new system using jreport.
AFAIK, there is no such tool. Perhaps contact DataTerrain. They offer tools for report conversions.
Assuming your transition aims at delivering web dashboards and self-service analytics via a web browser, there are 3rd-party Crystal Reports tools that can automate the generation of such web pages directly from Crystal Reports. Ken Hamady maintains a list of 3rd-party Crystal Reports automation tools. His list also includes report conversion tools.
I would like to migrate the reports from crystal reports to any free reporting tools. However, I don't want to rewrite the report in the new reporting tool. Are there any reporting tools which can read the crystal report files?
Is there a specific reporting tool that you are interesting in migrating to. Crystal Reports is one of the better tools for pixel perfect layouts and products out there are generally not comparable in the rich features available in CR.
Having said that, there are a not many results showing up on basic search. You might want to share more on the the kind of reporting solution you are intending to move to e.g. Is the intended tool a web control/toolkit or standalone reporting solution with scheduling etc.
The only tool that I could find is Crystal Report to SSRS (Yes SSRS is not free but assuming you have sql server this is bundled in for many editions). http://www.crystalmigrater.com/Default.aspx
There is a free RPT file viewer from the vendor - http://www.crystalreports.com/crviewer-confirm
I've been browsing the web searching for an answer to this for a few weeks now, jumping back to other assignments at work because I can't figure it out. I've searched google, youtube, stackoverflow, and several more websites. The typical solution I get is to right click on the project and add a new item; a crystal report. The problem is that crystal reports isn't included in lightswitch. So my question is, how would I go about working with crystal reports in Microsoft Visual Studio Lightswitch?
Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks!
I haven't seen any information about anyone using Crystal Reports with LightSwitch. Is there some reason why you couldn't use SQL Server Reporting Services to create/display your reports? Maybe you didn't know about SSRS? It comes with SQL Server, so if you have a SQL Server license, you also have SSRS for free.
There's still no way for you to just right-click anything in a LightSwitch projectm in order to define a report, you'd still need to create your reports in SSRS , then display them (even passing parameters) with LS.
There's a little bit of a learning curve getting used to SSRS, but once you do, you'll find it works very well.
i've been researching for three days and i've finally found a way around this: Open an aspx page from a lightswitch application that contains the crystal report viewer control and will therefore load your crystal report. Just follow these steps and let me know if you need further clarification;
Publish your lightswitch application (with a custom button control that will open the aspx page on execute).
I looked up the code for the _Execute() method here: http://lightswitchhelpwebsite.com/Blog/tabid/61/EntryId/11/Printing-Sql-Server-Reports-rdlc-With-LightSwitch.aspx
Open published lightswitch application as website in vs ultimate.
Create crystal report (add items, crystal reports).
Create aspx page to hold crystal report viewer control (that will load crystal report).
NB: Give read/write permissions to iis users on C:\Windows\Temp
Hope this helps.
I haven't tried consuming Crystal Reports in a LightSwitch application (yet), however I would suspect that you could leverage an existing Silverlight control that could take care of the work for you. It might take some tweaking to get the viewer to wire up in LightSwitch, but I am sure it can be done.
UPDATE... I stand correct; until someone else proves otherwise - I can't find anything that supports a Crystal Reports viewer in Silverlight.
I am new to .net Programming.
I want to know the Best Reporting Services.
If I use crystal report, is it install the full crystal report in each client side Systems?.
1) welcome to .NET, we lied about the cake
2) best depends on what you want to do but crystal works very well (I don't get to play with other reporting systems so can't comment really) and it exports to a lot of useful formats.
3) no, there is a crystal reports redistributable that contains just the dlls required by the program to display reports for machines where users do not need to create their own reports.
If you have doubt. Try RDLC report which Visual Studio In build. I am a RDLC report User, Its very simple and not need to install any extra exe's.
We use to be able to use agent ransack to search all our crystal reports (.rpt files) for the use of a stored procedure. That was when we had Crystal 8.5. We now have Crystal 2008 and it doesn't seem to work anymore (change of format in rpt files?). Anyone know a utility that would be able do do this?
There's a good comparison of commercial .rpt management utilities here: kenhamady.com/reportmanagementutilities.pdf. However, these are mostly... "not very good", let's say, and very expensive (not to mention some don't work with CR2008). I'd suggest getting a hold of some demo versions first to see if they'll work for your needs.