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mahesh
mahesh

Reputation: 4763

Is there any IDE for crystal report?

I have developed a windows application using .net and crystal report..

Now I want to install an IDE such that I can edit the crystal reports as per individual client's requirenment..

My Development Environment..

  1. Visual Studio 2010

  2. Crystal report runtime -13 - 32 bit

Hence, Is there any IDE to to so?

Regards, Mahesh Lalwani

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1800

Answers (1)

Emanuele Greco
Emanuele Greco

Reputation: 12721

Of course:

SAP Crystal Reports 2011.
You can manage more parameters; reports created are fully compatible.

It is not free; if you need a free solution must install Visual Studio Express and Crystal Reports for Visual Studio.

I know, each client hai his own requirements for reports; is typical trouble.. actually hard to solve!
I use 3 ways:
1 Report designed from us, client's logo is loaded dynamically from DB (one folder contains default reports, one folder each client version)
2 Full data export to excel-csv (so users create reports on MS Office)
3 Report designed by user An HTML editor to the user
- The user enters HTML using HTML Web Editor (like CLEditor)
- HTML is stored in a DB table
- Report query is executed, HTML is loaded from DB
- Some markers, defined for each report are replaced from query data (i.e. #ReportTitle# or #Money#) so styling and data are merged
- Final HTML is shown using a text area in CrystalReports, with HTML formatting [careful, there are few limitations.

Upvotes: 3

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