Passing URL Parameters

[Former Member]

I've hunted all over and can't seem to find this information. I have a web application that retrieves information about customers. Part of the information it retrieves is a customer history list. On this page is a link to a Crystal Report that outputs this information in a format nicer than the current html table structure on the page. What I need to do is pass parameters from the html page to the report so the user doesn't have to double enter the information. It seems to me the easiest way to do this is using url parameters, but I can't find any information on how to do this. We are using Crystal Reports XI, but we do not have the Enterprise server.

Does anyone know how to do this? Googling for this brings back a lot of unrelated entries because I'm not linking from one report to another, but from a html page to a report.

TIA,

Alex

[former_member11696]

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[former_member230846]

Hi Alex,

To clarify, when you say you're using Crystal Reports XI, do you mean you have the Crystal Reports Server XI where you an upload your reports to be viewed on the web?

If yes, you can use OpenDocument to call a report over the URL and to populate the parameter values to be passed. This will require some development on your side to pass those values from your web app to the OpenDocument URL.

Below is the link to the document. Please remove the blank space after https.

https ://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/a0ed62e1-c33e-2b10-bc84-ba872502a5ce

Regards,

Wallie

[Former Member]

No. We are using the JRC as part of a J2EE application to display the reports over the web - we do not have the Crystal Reports server.