So you may be asking… What is Crystal Reports Embedded? Crystal Reports embedded is an architecture which allows the Crystal Reports Rendering engine to run within the confides of the application environment. BusinessObjects provides a .NET runtime and a Java Report Component (JRC) which allows developers to embed Crystal Reports in their applications. Crystal Reports […]
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Can I Upgrade My Crystal Reports?
Crystal Reports you say? What version? It’s embedded in your application? How is it embedded? What does it do? Do you know what Developer Libraries they used? SDK? What? Who? When? To be honest, the reason I joined Crystal Decisions all those many years ago was because of Crystal Reports. I’d used Crystal Reports may […]
Embedding Web Controls into Crystal Reports
Bringing Together HTML Controls and Crystal Reports Every once in a while I get a chance to present in a forum or user group and show some new amazing capabilities in the product suite. Last year I had the chance to demonstrate WebElements. WebElements is a collection of Crystal functions which generate HTML. An easy […]
Crystal Reports 2008 gets flashy
If you’ve not seen the latest version of Crystal Reports, then you might want to see what you are missing. The latest version of Crystal Reports (v13) is called Crystal Reports 2008 and started shipping earlier this month. Although there are a lot of great features in the product including: New Parameter Panel with optional […]
Row-level Security Trick with Crystal Reports
Row-level Security on Scheduled Instances Without the Use of Business Views When I realized that I could get row-level security on scheduled instances without using Business Views I thought, I have to share this with everyone. When you schedule a report, the engine retrieves all the data based on the credentials of the user running […]