Craig -

The company owns Crystal 9 (Developer Edition) along with the Crystal Report Application Server. What other licensing would be neccessary.

In regards to the dynamic report creation. Do you know of any example code that would demonstrate how to generate the report programmatically. That would be the best solution for my requirements.

Thanks for the info!

Rick Napolitan


>Yes, you can do that with Crystal Reports. There are a couple of ways you can approach it:
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>- Completely design the report in code. However, this requires additional licensing and royalty payments to Crystal Decisions.
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>- Give complete WYSIWYG design to the user. This also requires additional licensing and royalties.
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>- Have a report template that names the fields, Field1, Field2, etc then map those to the actual data selected by the user.
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>>I pretty unfamiliar with crystal reports. Can crystal reports be used to configure report fields dynamically?
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>>My company wants to allow users to select, from a list, database fields they want to see on a report. They will also have the ability to determine selection criteria.
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>>I'm not concerned about the selection criteria aspect of this. I've looked into Crystal and seen a few examples using datasets, so the selection criteria can be handled in the dataset creation/fill.
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>>However, I haven't seen any tools with Crystal that appear to allow a report to be dynamically created/modified (add specified database fields to the report). It seems that all reports are created as static files, as far as the displayed data is concerned.
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>>My boss seems to think this can be accomplished using crystal. Am I missing something?