I spoke with a tech rep from Seagate Software (makers of CR), and he corroborated this info--that CFREPORT is no longer supported. The rep told me that CR8 would accomplish what I described in my previous post, but if we didn't want to have anything installed on clients then our only choice would be to save the reports in HTML format. However, since CF cannot directly access report objects, we would have to pass parameters to the rpt file and launch it from there (using the web component server). The problem here, he explained, is that your db username and password would be exposed in the source code. An alternative method would be to use a CFFORM to pass parameters to an ASP template (blasphemy ;) and allow ASP to process it, and then export the results to Excel. Thanks for the info! Terri ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Gieseman, Athelene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: I know NOTHING about Crystal Reports! Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 16:42:30 -0600 No. I tried this for a while. Then heard (thru this list) that the CFREPORT tag would not work with CR8 and there was no plan to make it work. So I started working on Crystal instead. Actually, now that I'm using CR, I prefer it anyway. Athelene Gieseman -----Original Message----- From: Douglas Knudsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 4:18 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: I know NOTHING about Crystal Reports! We too are using this. You do not need the development version for this either. Has anyone had success using the CFREPORT tag with CrystalReports 8 and CF4??? Cheers! ------ Douglas Knudsen LTT, that's Leveraged Technologies Team <--- Hey! These views are mine! [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got Linux? http://linuxmall.com From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AT INTERNET on 01/31/2001 05:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AT INTERNET@CCMAIL cc: (bcc: Douglas Knudsen/ATL/ALLTELCORP) Subject: RE: I know NOTHING about Crystal Reports! I'm doing this via the web component server and page server. It works very well (after a bit of frustration figuring it out and setting it up.) The documentation is very weak. But the product itself is easy to use and it's easy to integrate CF. If you'd like more specific info, feel free to email me directly or via the list. Athelene Gieseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Terri Stocke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 12:34 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: OT:I know NOTHING about Crystal Reports! Hey all! As is the nature of our business, I had something thrown in my lap yesterday, and I'm just trying to figure out if Crystal Reports will accomplish this or not... Basically, we need a way to allow users to generate reports on the fly via their web browsers (we don't want to install anything on the client machines) based on different criteria. Once the report is generated, we want to dump the report info to Excel so that users can manipulate it as needed. I am looking into Crystal Reports 8 (Developer Ed.), and I THINK it can do this, but I'm not entirely sure. I want to know 100% for sure if Crystal Reports would be the way to do this before we go ahead and hire an outside contractor for Crystal Reports (our skill here aren't strong enough to do this in the timeframe management is asking for)... Any input is greatly appreciated! BTW, we are using CF 4.0, Oracle, and need to design for both NN and IE, 4.X and up. Thanks! Terri ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
