Question

I have developed a windows application using .net and crystal report..

Now I want to install an IDE such that I can edit the crystal reports as per individual client’s requirenment..

My Development Environment..

1. Visual Studio 2010

2. Crystal report runtime -13 – 32 bit

Hence, Is there any IDE to to so?

Regards,
Mahesh Lalwani

Answer 1

Of course:

SAP Crystal Reports 2011.
You can manage more parameters; reports created are fully compatible.

It is not free; if you need a free solution must install Visual Studio Express and Crystal Reports for Visual Studio.

I know, each client hai his own requirements for reports; is typical trouble.. actually hard to solve!
I use 3 ways:
1 Report designed from us, client’s logo is loaded dynamically from DB (one folder contains default reports, one folder each client version)
2 Full data export to excel-csv (so users create reports on MS Office)
3 Report designed by user
An HTML editor to the user
– The user enters HTML using HTML Web Editor (like CLEditor)
– HTML is stored in a DB table
– Report query is executed, HTML is loaded from DB
– Some markers, defined for each report are replaced from query data (i.e. #ReportTitle# or #Money#) so styling and data are merged
– Final HTML is shown using a text area in CrystalReports, with HTML formatting [careful, there are few limitations.