My guess is they (Allaire and/or Ben) do what a lot of companies do
(including our internal stuff). They ship the runtime engine (for free)
which allows you to run any report, but you don't get the visual designer.
The nice thing about this is that a company only needs to purchase a small
number of designer packages to support lots of users. In our case we have 1
designer package installed on a particular computer. We develop all of our
reports here. Then when we release our internal application program the
user gets the runtime module installed. They can then run and view the
reports.
In our case we embed the crystal report in a FoxPro application using
Crystal's CRPE Active-X object. This object allows you to programmatically
manipulate the report. In our case our reports work off of a SQL Server
stored procedure that accepts parameters to determine what data to return.
We create our crystal object, change the parameter values in the report,
then produce the report.
This applies to CF in that with CF you can create the crystal report object,
manipulate what is needed and produce the report, returning HTML. I haven't
tried this but it should work without a problem.
Hopefully I've muddied the waters enough, if so then I've accomplished my
mission!
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Bill Grover
Supervisor IS Department Phone: 301.424.3300 x396
EU Services, Inc. FAX: 301.424.3300 x1396#
649 North Horners Lane E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rockville, MD 20850-1299 WWW: www.euservices.com
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> -----Original Message-----
>
> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 05:39:00 -0500
> From: "Brandon Whitaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: HEY! Have I been swindled?
> Message-ID: <006d01bfb034$cc972a30$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
<snip>
>
> I purchased the Enterprise version of 4.0, and there was no
> CR in there...at
> least, not the frontend designer tool. Apparently, an
> essential part of the
> CR engine is built into the ColdFusion executables; you use
> Crystal Reports
> to design the report, then you embed the path to the report
> on your hard
> drive into a CF template (think CFInclude...). The CF Engine
> executes the
> report, and returns the output as HTML.
>
<snip>
>
> Brandon Whitaker
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "It'll get used by the same people using Opera. People
> dressed in black
> wearing berets."
> - Dave Watts, on Mozilla
> "The net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
> - John Gilmore
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