It just so happens that I asked Crystal Decisions (formerly Seagate
Software) about this...
Crystal Reports 8.x has this really cool feature where you can pass pretty
much anything you need to do through the URL. Example:
http://www.mysite.com/admin/reports/sales.rpt?prompt0=#x#
Sure, it doesn't *exactly* fit into Fusebox, but it's the way that Segate
says you should do things. I'm sure if you REALLY wanted to, you could use
CFHTTP and trick the browser, but you will most likely be satisfied with a
URL_whatever file.
With Crystal Reports 8, all you had to do was buy and install Crystal
Reports on the server. With Crystal Reports 8.5, you have to install Crystal
Enterprise on the server. If you buy the Developer edition of Crystal
Reports, you get a 5 concurrent user version for free. After that, it's sort
of expensive.
I suggest that everyone post questions/replies to the group, since this is
interesting.
Shan
Shannon Hicks
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-----Original Message-----
From: McCollough, Alan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 4:41 PM
To: Fusebox
Subject: Crystal Reports, CF, and Fusebox
I'm wondering if anybody has the skinny on using Crystal Reports 8.x and CF
together; but -not- through CFREPORT, which apparently flat doesn't work.
In particular, I've already got a couple o' apps that use CR, but not via
CFREPORT. I'm thinking of upgrading CR to ver 8.5, but don't wanna bother if
somebody out there has experienced disaster with it.
So how does this tie into fusebox? The apps that use CR for reporting are
fusebox apps. So there!
Alan McCollough
Web Programmer
Allaire Certified ColdFusion Developer
Alaska Native Medical Center
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