timnorvel
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View report from Outlook
Hello,
Not sure if this question should be here or in Outlook, but... I have a public folder (Outlook 2003) that I want to set it's home page to point to a crystal report on our Intranet. I can open IE and put in the URL and it opens just fine, using the crystal ActiveX. In Outlook, when I click on the public folder that points to the same URL as it's home page, the ActiveX viewer loads (I get the crystal tool bar an such) but the report never appears. Is there something I need to do in Outlook to make this work?
Thanks,
Tim
Not sure if this question should be here or in Outlook, but... I have a public folder (Outlook 2003) that I want to set it's home page to point to a crystal report on our Intranet. I can open IE and put in the URL and it opens just fine, using the crystal ActiveX. In Outlook, when I click on the public folder that points to the same URL as it's home page, the ActiveX viewer loads (I get the crystal tool bar an such) but the report never appears. Is there something I need to do in Outlook to make this work?
Thanks,
Tim
ASKER
Crystal is not installed on the "Outlook" machine... just the ActiveX Crystal viewer.
I created the report with Crystal 8.5.
Thanks,
Tim
I created the report with Crystal 8.5.
Thanks,
Tim
Did you install the other required dlls?
http://support.businessobjects.com/library/kbase/articles/c2008905.asp
mlmcc
http://support.businessobjects.com/library/kbase/articles/c2008905.asp
mlmcc
ASKER
Aren't those dll's for the report designer component? and needed if you were delivering an application with crystal enbeded in which you wanted to manipulate reports in some way? I am simply using crystal web componant server to serve up web based reports, which I believe you only need the Crystal Viewer ActiveX and a browser to view from the client machine. And, again, it works from IE. I thought Outlook handled web pages the same as IE, so I would just "browse" to the URL from within Outlook just like I would from IE.
ASKER
Actually, this is not a crystal thing at all... it's an Outlook thing. I just added the web toolbar to my Outlook view, typed in the exact same url and I was able to view the report just fine. There's something about setting the folder home page to that url that doesn't work. Hmmm.
I'm moving this question to the Outlook section. Thanks for your effort mlmcc.
I'm moving this question to the Outlook section. Thanks for your effort mlmcc.
Some of them may be for displaying the report and database access.
I have never tried from either IE or Outlook.
mlmcc
I have never tried from either IE or Outlook.
mlmcc
ASKER
I got this working by using a virtual directory... so, in the folder home page setting, instead of a url that pointed to the file (http://server/dir/file.rpt), I created a virtual directory on the IIS server that had the report file as it's default document, then set the folder home page to point to it (http://server/dir). I have no idea why that is any different, but it worked for me.
Thanks,
Tim
Thanks,
Tim
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What version of Crystal?
mlmcc