Newbie alert! Wrong forum but couldn't find a suitable one. Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction (please).

It's a general question about deployment.

We have a number of letters and reports written in Crystal 8 that current sit on all the local PC's that need to run them. The application is also Client based and creates an XML file before calling Crystal to merge to that XML resulting in a Crystal Report NB all this is Client side.

We're discussing changing the application to be broswer based but a sticking point is the Reports/Letters, we have quite a few of them.

One of the options I thinking of is storing the reports on the server and doing the merge on the server side. We would then (probably) convert to a pdf and stream back the pdf to the browser, allowing the user to view the resulting letter/report as a pdf.

This way we could use the existing Cystal Reports as is without changing them (that's the idea anyway).

So the questions: -
Does anyone else merge the CR in a similar way?
What are the license implications?
Would I need CR server to 'merge' server side in this way (or is that something different)?

As mentioned, I know this won't be the correct section but I'm lost where to post it!

Thanks for any help.



Edited by lkalka - 04 Aug 2011 at 6:48am

Thanks for the reply.

I thought others would have done it, if anyone does know what the license implications would be that would be good to know.

In terms of the viewer, I'll look into that although as mentioned for what we want to do potentially we could convert to a pdf and stream that to the browser.

Any more comments welcome (or pointers where items like this are better discussed).