Using SAP Crystal Reports 2011 To Protect Your Report Designs - Update #2
SAP Crystal Dashboard Design 2011 - Portfolio Update #4
One of the items I discussed in SAP Crystal Solutions 2011 Portfolio Update #1 was that SAP Crystal Reports 2011 no longer contains developer tools. This blog goes into more detail on that topic.
This doesn't mean there's nothing in SAP Crystal Reports 2011 for developers - in fact, it's quite the opposite.
To review, we provide, for free, report designers and runtime engines for both .NET 4.0 and Java.
SAP Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010, and SAP Crystal Reports for Eclipse both include:
So how does SAP Crystal Reports 2011 add value to these developer packages?
At a high level, it's by:
Crystal Reports has for years included editable preview. This means that report designers can modify a report while viewing it with data. Other report design tools force you to alternate between an editable layout pane with no data, and a read-only pane with data. I find in my regular use of Crystal Reports that this feature alone is worth the upgrade from SAP Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010.
Other time saving features of SAP Crystal Reports 2011 include:
This table shows a list of features that exist in the Java and .NET runtimes that require SAP Crystal Reports 2011 to create.
In Using SAP Crystal Reports 2011 To Protect Your Report Designs - Update #2, I go into more depth on the new RPTR feature and how it can help ISVs protect their report designs.
In short, RPTR is a new read only report format that can only be created by SAP Crystal Reports 2011. This format cannot be opened by any report designer - including SAP Crystal Reports 2011. However it can be opened by our .NET runtime engine included in SAP Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010, and other viewers.
This means it's ideal for sharing reports in your applications when you want to prevent downstream users from modifying the report designs and reducing the potential for support issues.
I hope that helps you understand how we're making it easy and simple to use SAP Crystal Reports for your development projects.
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