>Hi All,
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>I'm trying to find something on how you go about making a report created in Crystal Reports part of VFP6.0 exe.
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>Does anyone have any idea where this kind of information can be found.
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>I'm thinking that after you create and save the report you add a button to a form where the click event would have code that would run it as though it was created natively.
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>This application is compiled to an exe and is located on our server.
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>Are there dll's that need to go on the users local pc?
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>Do you just call the report like 'do repo to print prompt preview>, or is it more involved? (I'm sure it is)
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>Any hints, ideas, info would be appreciated.
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>TIA
>
>Jim Harvey
>jharvey@netrax.net


John,

There are several DLLs that need to be installed on the user's PC. Which DLLs you install depends on what you are doing with the report. For example, exporting to Excel requires different DLLs that exporting to Word. Crystal Reports has an automation server that you'll need to call from your application. Email me at craigb@esolserv.com and I'll send you my Crystal Reports whitepaper from my Whilfest presentation.

Craig Berntson
MCSD, Microsoft .Net MVP, Grape City Community Influencer