Crystal Reports and Delphi
Larry Maturo
and if Crystal Reports has a license for developers that does not require
the developer to pay a per user license fee when they sell their app? Also,
are there any Delphi Compoents that allow you to schedule Crystal Reports?
-- Larry Maturo
Dan Palley
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Delphi 2005 includes Crystal reports integrated into the IDE.
You can distribute a Crystal run-time for free with your apps. The run-time
allows users to view reports only, not create new ones or modify existing
ones.
Dan
Larry Maturo
Thank you. I checked out D2005, and, as I understand it, the Crystal
Reports included is
only for .Net. I'm stuck on Win32, and at the moment Delphi 7. I just got
D2005 today,
and before I can use it, I have to port about a half million lines of Delphi
code to it from D7,
so I will probably need a few days. :-)
I recently found this on the Business Objects Web Site:
Licensing conditions for integrating reporting components into thick-client
applications
Developers can integrate 750+ royalty-free report viewing, printing, and
modification APIs into thick-client applications and deploy or redistribute
these applications at no extra cost.
I take this to mean that I can do what I need as long as its embedded in my
thick client app, and users can only create reports on the fields I provide
for them. I am currently using Rave Reports, and that is their limitation
also.
-- Larry
"Dan Palley" <d...@trams.com> wrote in message
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Dan Palley
components. We use this technique to create a crystal viewer in Delphi
win32. You should be able to embed the desinger components into your Win32
app using RDO as well, although I have not tried this.
The Crystal integration (from a development standpoint) in D2005 includes
Win32. You can design crystal reports within the IDE. I'm not sure if this
is what you're looking for, though.
Most of our customers don't build their own crystal reports. We provide a
few canned ones and there are 3rd party companies that write Crystal reports
for our apps. For those customers that do want to write their own, we
usually recommend that they buy a copy of Crystal reports.
Dan
"Larry Maturo" <lma...@imceda.com> wrote in message
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Larry Maturo
You wrote:
> Ok, it's possible to access almost all of Crystal via the RDO (ActiveX)
> components. We use this technique to create a crystal viewer in Delphi
> win32. You should be able to embed the desinger components into your
> Win32 app using RDO as well, although I have not tried this.
Just the sort of info I was looking for. Thank you.
>
You wrote:"
> The Crystal integration (from a development standpoint) in D2005 includes
> Win32. You can design crystal reports within the IDE. I'm not sure if
> this is what you're looking for, though.
Really? I went to the Borland Web Site and they said it only worked for
.NET. That's great that it also works for Win32. I may have to look at
D2005
more closely. I had blown it off for this when I thought that the Crystal
Reports
packaged with it only worked with .NET. I don't really care about
designing reports within the IDE, I just want to be able to incorporate them
into our app.
You wrote:
> Most of our customers don't build their own crystal reports. We provide a
> few canned ones and there are 3rd party companies that write Crystal
> reports for our apps. For those customers that do want to write their
> own, we usually recommend that they buy a copy of Crystal reports.
>
We too provide a few canned reports, and most of our customers don't
design their own, though its important that we support that. I agree that
they should buy Crystal Reports if they are really interested in creating
their own reports. A lot of our customers already have Crystal Reports
Server, so I imagine they can already design their own reports for the
most part.
Thank you for the information, I really appreciate it.
-- Larry
Michael Philippenko
FYI:
FastReport for Delphi have not such limitations.
You can give powerful internal report designer in applications for
endusers w/o any additional fees.
Tuesday, July 19, 2005, 6:43:55 PM, you wrote:
LM> Hi Dan,
LM> You wrote:
>> Ok, it's possible to access almost all of Crystal via the RDO (ActiveX)
>> components. We use this technique to create a crystal viewer in Delphi
>> win32. You should be able to embed the desinger components into your
>> Win32 app using RDO as well, although I have not tried this.
LM> Just the sort of info I was looking for. Thank you.
>>
LM> You wrote:"
>> The Crystal integration (from a development standpoint) in D2005 includes
>> Win32. You can design crystal reports within the IDE. I'm not sure if
>> this is what you're looking for, though.
LM> Really? I went to the Borland Web Site and they said it only worked for
LM> .NET. That's great that it also works for Win32. I may have to look at
LM> D2005
LM> more closely. I had blown it off for this when I thought that the Crystal
LM> Reports
LM> packaged with it only worked with .NET. I don't really care about
LM> designing reports within the IDE, I just want to be able to incorporate them
LM> into our app.
LM> You wrote:
>> Most of our customers don't build their own crystal reports. We provide a
>> few canned ones and there are 3rd party companies that write Crystal
>> reports for our apps. For those customers that do want to write their
>> own, we usually recommend that they buy a copy of Crystal reports.
>>
LM> We too provide a few canned reports, and most of our customers don't
LM> design their own, though its important that we support that. I agree that
LM> they should buy Crystal Reports if they are really interested in creating
LM> their own reports. A lot of our customers already have Crystal Reports
LM> Server, so I imagine they can already design their own reports for the
LM> most part.
LM> Thank you for the information, I really appreciate it.
LM> -- Larry
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