How can I call reports from a third party tool?

[Former Member]

Hi!

I'm a Delphi 6 developer and our company has a customer that want to call reports created in Crystal Reports directly from our software.

What is the quickest way to open a report from a third party tool (passing parameters) ?

There is a way to do that without embedding Crystal VCL components in Delphi? I'm searching for a command line tool or a way to open it with URLs....

Thanks in advance!

Edited by: AlmirB on May 23, 2011 6:25 PM

[ido_millet · Accepted solution]

One of the 3rd-party Crystal Reports viewers listed at http://www.kenhamady.com/bookmarks.html provides a full command line API, so you can call a report from your app and pass parameter values, login info, etc.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Ok! And what about the compatibility of these third party viewers and Crystal Reports versions (9, X, XI)?

They still compatible?

Thanks again!

[ido_millet · Accepted solution]

Sure. The viewer that provides a command line api has 4 different versions: 8.5, 9, XI R2, 2008.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks Ido!

(You got the points!)