Hello, A few things..
Reports written in Crystal Reports ( 8,9, 11 etc) do not work with the CFREPORT tag. My understanding is that Report Builder is a cut down version of Crytsal Reports and is missing some functionality. The reports are not interchangeable between products btw. You CAN get proper Crystal Reports reports working for an web application, but they to need to called via classic asp via the SDK that is not supported\included in Crystal Reports 2008. I have never gotten around to attempting to get the .net calling paradigm worked out, but assume that works though ( but never have tried it). Running reports like this with classic asp will require the IIS server running in IIS 5 Emulation mode ( whatever that is....) Look for a file named crsdk_net_samples_12.zip for .net examples, or asp examples in a file named something along the lines of aspmps115 on the website. The Crytsal Reports product has suffered from being sold from Seagate, to Crytsal Decisions to Business Objects to SAP and getting support seems to be difficult when you run into the problems ( few people seem to want to run it in conjunction with web apps). I have lets say 100 reports in Crystal Reports so re-engineering them for CFREPORT was not an option for me. Recent enquiries lead me to believe that the Report Builder was added to cf 8\9 as a bit of an after thought and doesn't seem to be being actively maintained.. There is a report builder forum on the adobe website, so a question there may be of more help.... Doesn't really answer your primary question, but perhaps some food for thought. Cheers, -----Original Message----- From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:cfaus...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mike Kear Sent: Tuesday, 12 October 2010 1:21 PM To: cfaussie Subject: [cfaussie] Crystal Reports and CF9 Report Builder - how similar? I have a client who has experience with Crystal Reports on his old CF5 site, and now that we've upgraded him to CF9 wants to use Crystal Reports again. I seem to recall that the adobe Report Builder that's a free download to add on to CF9 is the same thing, only updated and licensed. Is that right? If not, can anyone tell me how similar the current Report Builder is to the CF5 era Crystal Reports? (I'm wanting to gauge how much of a job it's going to be for him to update his skills I I never really used that old Crystal Reports, so I'm not in a position to compare them.) -- Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion 9 Enterprise, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaus...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaus...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en.
