The main difference between CE Report Application Server 9 and CE 9

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Crystal Enterprise Report Application Server 9 (CE RAS 9) and Crystal Enterprise (CE) 9 Other versions of the main difference is what?

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Crystal Enterprise Report Application Server (CE RAS) 9 is included only on separate CDs provided with the Crystal Report 9 Professional, Developer, and Advanced editions.
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Solution

Although the Crystal Enterprise Report Application Server 9 (CE RAS 9) is similar to the Crystal Enterprise (CE) name, they are different products and cannot be used in the same way.

This scenario would be useful, with RAS 9 as the development environment for viewing and manipulating reports, while CE is the account management tool.

The main differences between CE RAS 9 and CE are:

View Reports
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There are two options for viewing reports using CE RAS 9:

· Eportfolio lite– an embedded ASP application that provides an interface for users to select reports and view them. To start it, select ' Start ' > ' program ' > ' Crystal Enterprise 9 ' > ' Application Server LaunchPad ', then click ' Launch eportfolio Lite '。

· Custom asp/jsp-Using the Crystal Report Developer or Advanced Edition, users can choose to view the report by creating an ASP or JSP program.

There are three options for viewing reports using the Crystal Enterprise Standard Edition and Professional Edition:

· URL report – You can call and display reports directly from the URL, for example, Http://myserver/MyReport.rpt.

· Eportfolio lite– an embedded ASP application that provides an interface for users to select reports and view them. To start it, select ' Start ' > ' program ' > ' Crystal Enterprise 9 ' > ' Application Server LaunchPad ', then click ' Launch eportfolio Lite '。

· Custom ASP/CSP/JSP-Developers can choose to view reports (valid only in professional editions) by creating ASP, CSP, or JSP programs.


Security, scalability, and ease of management
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· CE RAS 9 relies on built-in Windows security, must run on a single server, and does not have the ability to schedule reports.

· CE Standard Edition and Professional Edition with built-in security features, can be extended to multiple servers, and have the ability to schedule reports.

Comments on the article
SmallStone2003 (2004-05-09)
Haibo, I have a very urgent problem, I hope you can help me solve it?
When using the Crystal Report RAS to publish, all is normal, but when I connect the Oracle server, after entering the user and the password in the login interface, has been the landing interface, that is, the database is not connected. But I use my own machine on the SQL2000 Server report, can be normal display. I have tried with Toad and Oracle's sqlplus to connect to the Oracle database to ensure that the user and password are correct. RAS I reinstalled and restarted the machine. Oracle I am installing the client. Thank you