Independent Data Consultancy
The official line from SAP: Crystal Server 2011 Standard and Enterprise Maintenance Notice Crystal Server 2011 mainstream maintenance is scheduled to end Dec 31st 2015. Crystal Server 2011 customers with current support may continue to renew this year and during 2016. At the end of mainstream maintenance, priority-one support will begin and continue through Dec […]
Customer: Educational Software Company SAP introduced us to a rapidly growing software company. The reported problem was a with scaling their Crystal Server. The server was using the Report Application Server (RAS) to modify reports on the fly, then present the finished report to the user. We initially expected the problem to be related the use […]
Customer: Construction Consultancy Our Partner’s customer, a construction consultancy, needed a custom report viewer integrating into their web application. Pursuit Technology provided a Visual Studio ‘User Control’ to allow the reporting to be very loosely coupled with their main application. The final integration provided a dynamic report list that presents a list of reports to […]
Customer: Security Software Company Our Partner’s customer required advice on the best way to integrate reporting into their database security software. Pursuit Technology’s long experience of Crystal Reports integration work allowed us to advise them on both the technical and legal issues around the integration. Technologies: Crystal Reports
Pleased to announce that Pursuit Technology are the first reseller for R-Tag’s Crystal Reports Management Software in the UK, covering UK and Ireland. We’ll be publishing a series of posts on these great products over the next few weeks with more details of the great functionality. In the meantime, if you’re looking for documentation, version […]
Eight years ago, I wrote a simple report viewer called RptView. Initially it was chargeable, then ad supported. One lesson I did learn is that neither of these models is a good way to make any money! I’ve now updated it to use a more recent version of Crystal Reports and you can now download […]
When you first start designing reports, you add tables using a wizard, work out the joins between the tables. Then you’re off. First report designed in no time at all. A few weeks later, you’ve designed all the easy reports. Then you learn to use subreports for that data that just won’t join. A little […]
Sadly, this no longer works. Google have removed the API. I’m hoping that the next release of Crystal Reports supports https for image locations so I can update this to a newer API. I just had an interesting support question from a customer, and felt the need to put pen to paper. They’re finding that […]
I had an interesting question from a new customer last week. They use Crystal Reports to analyse some data, but want users to be able to add comments to the report after it’s been run. No point adding them before, as the comments were a quote for work that was only known to be required […]
I recently met with a customer to discuss their requirements for some new Crystal Reports. In passing, they mentioned a problem they were having with the formatting of the Y-Axis on a chart. The problem was that the chart was being used to display a count, but values was displaying one decimal place which makes […]