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Confused by Crystal Reports products
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08/03/2000 13:49:08
Walter Meester
HoogkarspelNetherlands
 
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00343299
Message ID:
00343362
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Evan,

>I would like to give my end users the ability to run adhoc reports and to also convert my current reports so that they can be sent to HTML, word and PDF. I am a bit confused. I think I would have to buy the developer edition to integrate with VFP but do I have to get the multi-user version. I am the only developer but the end users would be doing their own queries within my application.

IMO Crystal Reports is not quite suitable for your situation, though it is the only report generator that can acceptable convert the report to various formats (note PDF is not one of them, might be different in CR 8.0). For end-users to be able to create their own reports, they must have a license per user. It's not that easy to create reports in CR, so your users must really learn how to do this.

For you personally, you'll only need one license. You may distrubute your reports royalty free.

>Also is there a Crystal Reports runtime that I will have to install on the client machine?

Yep, There is a whole buch of DLLs to install on the client machine, depending on the solution you choose.

Walter,
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