>As some of you know, I have created some Crystal Reports in Version 11 for a customer. We decided not to try to interface the new reports with the exisiting system because it is not compatible. I cannot load runtime files for Version 11 or I will clobber runtime files for their existing Crystal Reports Version 7.1.
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>Instead, I was wondering if there is something I can use besides Visual FoxPro or Visual Basic to created a Crystal Reports front-end to run the new Crystal Reports. I don't think I can MS SQL Server 2003 to build a front-end menu for Crystal Reports, can I? I am not very familiar with MS SQL Server 2003 so I don't know what I can do besides everyday queries.
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>In the interim, I have built individual icons for each Crystal Report .RPT file and they run the reports that way by double-clicking on the icon and then Refreshing the report data each time they run the report. I did not Save Data with Report so each report comes up in design mode when they double-click the icon for a report. Is there a better way to do this?
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>Lastly, I am doing it all from my workstation. Is there a licensing problem if I want to put my reports on each workstation with an icon set on each desktop. I am sure there is, but I don't know what else to do because I cannot install runtime files on each workstation. Nobody is going to design any reports, just me. They only need a way to run the reports without using the runtime files for Version 11. But then again, I suggested they get a site license agreement. Or buy an inexpensive Crystal Reports Version 11 because they don't need the Developer Edition loaded on each workstation.
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>But wouldn't loading a stand-alone version on each workstation clobber the runtime files they need for their existing eEmpACT system that uses Version 7.1 on a server? I don't know for sure, but I think there are runtime Crystal files for Version 7.1 that must have installed when they loaded eEmpACT software that includes Crystal Reports Version 7.1 reports. And I doubt all the files are on the server only for that app.
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>Any ideas and advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks for all of your help. Before we go out and buy more software and take a step down the wrong path I appreciate whatever you can suggest.
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>Thanks very much!

I am running both Crystal 8.5 and Crystal 10 on the same PC. It puts all the files in different directories so I have not had a problem myself.

Regards,