Crystal Reports

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  1. NewMind

    NewMind

    Greetings -

    I am new to DASP and was very excited about finding this site. However, I am just discovering DASP dos not support Crystal Reports. This is VERY dissappointing, since I just spent several hours getting my site running. I have a ton of reports already written that I would HATE to have to re-write just to make a square peg fit into a round hole. I see there have been many request submitted by many users for DASP to support Crystal, but it doen't look like they are very anxious to satisfy any of this demand. I would really hate to leave DASP over reporting options, but not sure what else to do....but has anyone found any alternative hosting sites that do support CrystalReports?
     
    NewMind, Sep 3, 2006
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  2. Takeshi Eto

    Takeshi Eto DiscountASP.NET Staff

    Unfortunately, we do not support Crystal Reports due to licensing issues. We have contacted Business Objects several times to try to be able to legally host Crystal Reports but we cannot unless Business Objects changes with licensing terms. You will not find any hosts out there supporting Crystal Reports and if you do, they are very very likely doing so illegally.

    You may want to contact Business Objects and file a complaint about their licensing. Perhaps, if enough people did so, they may see that there is some demand in the marketplace for some updates to their licensing.

    We do offer SQL 200 Reporting Services as an addon and we do have the ASP.NET 2.0 reportviewer control installed on our webservers.

    Eric
    DiscountASP.NET
    http://www.DiscountASP.NET
     
    Takeshi Eto, Sep 4, 2006
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  3. NewMind

    NewMind

    Thank you for the explination, it makes since and I really appriecaite the quick response.


    Has any one had any luck with ActiveReports?

    I am still on ASP 1.1, can you develop reports with the new report viewer? Also, will I need to purchase SQL reporting services to develop reports? Or can I develop them in asp.net and just deploy them on your server?
     
    NewMind, Sep 4, 2006
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  4. wisemx

    wisemx

    Both bro.

    Even with Classic ASP you can shuffle the SQL data in impressive ways back to the browser, any browser.

    There are of courseadvantages of the reporting services and .NET add-ons, woot to the guys here becausewe have access to so many robust .NETcomponentsprovided free for us.

    With ASP v3 and the server directives we created identical reports pulling from SQL Server 2000 tables.

    Now with .NET v2 you can do everything we did with the addition of Paging and Sorting, woot woot.

    Give me an idea of what you want to report and I'll be more specific.
    Bottom line is, you don't need to fret at all... [​IMG]
     
    wisemx, Sep 4, 2006
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  5. wisemx

    wisemx

    We also had licensing issues with them, which were never resolved.


    F.Y.I., while they offer very good reporting at the browser level we were able to do more by creating pivot tables from SQL Server without their activeX control, simply because we couldn't force everyone to install the component.


    I'm still a fan of CR but know for a fact you can create the same exact reports here without them.
     
    wisemx, Sep 4, 2006
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