Publishing Crystal Reports to Reports Server 2013

[Former Member]

I have created multiple reports using Crystal Report Writer 2013 on my laptop.  After installing Crystal Reports Server 2013 on a server I found that I need to publish the reports to it.  How do I do this?

Thank you!

Ron

[abhilash_kumar · Accepted solution]

Hi Ron,

You can save reports from the CR Designer to the repository.

Go to File > Save As > Click Enterprise > Logon using your BI Server credentials > Save to a folder

-Abhilash

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Now that I have my report saved on the server, where do I go to set the web page to view the report.

[abhilash_kumar · Accepted solution]

You'd logon to the BI LaunchPad.

The URL would look something like this:

http://servername:port/BOE/BI

-Abhilash

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

I logged on to the BI Launchpad and see that my server name is VISTORERP1:6400.  When I type in http://VIASTORERP1:6400//BOE/BI, I receive a message back saying that the webpage cannot be displayed.  Am I missing a few steps to set this up?

[DellSC · Accepted solution]

Odds are it's really either http://VIASTORERP1:8080/BOE/BI or http://VIASTORERP1/BOE/BI.

-Dell

[abhilash_kumar · Accepted solution]

I don't know if this is a typo however, I see two // after 6400:

When I type in http://VIASTORERP1:6400//BOE/BI, 

-Abhilash

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

This was a typo.  I am able to see the most recent reports by going to http://VIASTORERP1:8080/BOE/BI.

Now for the million dollar question.  I want my users to see all of the available reports that I have published and do not want them to have to signon every time that they are accessing a report.  Is this possible?

Thank you!

Ron

[abhilash_kumar · Accepted solution]

You should really be asking that question in the BI Platform space.

-Abhilash

[DellSC · Accepted solution]

There are a couple of ways of doing this:

1.  Configure Active Directory or LDAP single sign-on for your system.  This way users would be automatically logged in.

2.  Write an application using either the .NET or Java SDK that will automatically log the users in and use OpenDocument to show the reports.

You'll still have to set up security so that the users are in a user group that has access to the folder where the reports are located.

-Dell