This should be your intention too, as a user, to fully evaluate Crystal Report Professional 8.5 without restrictions and then decide. If you are keeping the software and want to use it longer than its trial time, we strongly encourage you purchasing the license key from Crystal official website. This directory is created if Crystal Reports cannot find a Notes install on your computer and can sometimes conflict with Notes, if it is installed on your computer. The latest version of the native driver is 8.5.0.46, which is installed with version 8.5 of Crystal Reports. For those users who do not have version 8.5, it will be necessary to. The Crystal Reports 8.0 RDC will make an incorrect project reference to the Design or Run time library after you deploy a distributed application from Crystal Reports 8.5 on top of it. That is, if a Crystal Reports 8.5 based application is distributed to an 8.0 RDC machine, the Design Time Library reference may not be added when the user uses. Seagate Crystal Reports™ 8 User’s Guide Seagate Software, Inc. 915 Disc Drive Scotts Valley California, USA 95066.

Crystal Reports is a business intelligence application, marketed to small and medium businesses^[1] by SAP SE.

History[edit]

Terry Cunningham and the Cunningham Group originated the software in 1991.^[2] Crystal Services Inc. marketed the product^[3] (originally called 'Quik Reports') when they couldn't find a suitable commercial report writer for an accounting software they developed add-on products for, which was ACCPAC Plus for DOS (later acquired by SAGE).^[4] After producing versions 1.0 through 3.0, Crystal Services was acquired by Seagate Technology in 1994.^[5] Crystal Services was combined with Holistic Systems to form the Information Management Group of Seagate Software, which later rebranded as Crystal Decisions and produced versions 4.0 through 9.0. Crystal Decisions was acquired in December 2003 by BusinessObjects, which produced versions 10, 11 (XI) and version 12 (2008).

SAP acquired BusinessObjects on October 8, 2007 and released Crystal Reports 2011 (version 14) on May 3, 2011. The latest version released is Crystal Reports 2020 (14.3.x) on June 13, 2020.

The file extension for Crystal Reports' proprietary file format is .rpt. The design file can be saved without data, or with data for later viewing or sharing. Introduced with the release of Crystal Reports 2011 (version 14.0), the read-only .rptr file extension option allows for viewing, but cannot be modified once exported.^[6]

Several other applications, including Microsoft Visual Studio versions 2003 through 2008, and Borland Delphi, at one time bundled an OEM version of Crystal Reports as a general purpose reporting tool.^[7] Microsoft discontinued this practice and later released their own competing reporting tool, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).^{[8][verification needed]}

Versions and editions[edit]

• A=Advanced Developer, D=Developer, P=Professional, S=Standard^[10]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^Crystal Reports small business marketing website
2. ^'Meet the Team'. Indicee. Archived from the original on 2012-10-11. Retrieved 2012-10-11. That's what initially motivated his family business, The Cunningham Group, and his brother Terry to begin building… Crystal Reports in 1991.
3. ^'Crystal Reports links dBASE and Paradox data'. Data Based Advisor. Access my library. September 1, 1992. Retrieved 2009-07-09. Crystal Services says that they will address both the installation problem and the documentation omission in the new version. …Crystal Reports is being marketed by them and Borland International…
4. ^'ERP and Crystal Reports'. Stephen Smith's Blog. 2012-01-21. Retrieved 2020-09-17.
5. ^'Seagate to acquire Crystal Services'. San Jose Mercury News. News bank. 1994-05-11. Retrieved 2009-04-14.
6. ^'Crystal Reports family of offerings. Features by edition comparison chart'(PDF). SAP. 2019.
7. ^Peck, George (2008). Crystal Reports 2008: The Complete Reference. McGraw-Hill Professional. p. 566. ISBN978-0-07-159098-3. Retrieved 2009-07-09. Not only was Crystal Reports bundled with earlier versions of Visual Basic…, but every Professional or higher version of VS.NET, up to and including Visual Studio 2008, includes an option to install Crystal Reports as well…
8. ^'Support for Crystal Reports for Visual Studio'. Support (knowledge base). Microsoft.
9. ^Short history and resources for Crystal Reports Software Developer Kits (SDK)
10. ^'Crystal Reports family of offerings. Features by edition comparison chart'(PDF). SAP. 2019.

Bibliography[edit]

• G. Taylor, Allen (June 3, 2008). Crystal Reports 2008 For Dummies (1st ed.). For Dummies. p. 396. ISBN0-470-29077-3.
• Peck, George (June 19, 2008). Crystal Reports 2008: The Complete Reference (1st ed.). McGraw-Hill Osborne Media. p. 968. ISBN0-07-159098-6.
• McCoy, Cate; Maric, Gord (2002). Mastering Crystal Reports 9 (1st ed.). Sybex. p. 639. ISBN0-7821-4173-0. Archived from the original on 2010-11-25. Retrieved 2010-09-21.

External links[edit]

Symptom

After installing Crystal Reports 8.5, the Online Help fails to launch in the Crystal Reports Designer after clicking the Help menu, and then clicking Crystal Reports Help. The same behavior also occurs when pressing the F1 key.

Resolution

This behavior occurs when Crystal Reports 8.5 is installed on any computer with Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 6.0 installed. This is a known issue and has been tracked with the Track ID ADAPT00045801.

To work around this issue, install the Crystal Reports 8.5 help file and then modify a registry subkey.

Install the Crystal Reports 8.5 help file

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If you do not have your Crystal Reports 8.5 CD available, complete these steps:

1. Download the file cr85_help_file.zip from the support site.
2. Extract the crw.chm file to the C:Program FilesSeagate SoftwareCrystal ReportsHelpEn folder.
3. Proceed to the next section - Modify registry subkey.

If you do have your Crystal Reports 8.5 CD availalble, complete these steps:

1. Click Start > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs.
2. Click Crystal Reports from the list of installed programs.
3. In Windows 2000/XP, click the Change button. In Windows 9x/ME, click the Add/Remove button. The Crystal Reports Setup dialog box appears.
4. Click the Add/Remove button. Expand Crystal Reports Programs in the Select Feature dialog. Expand Help.
5. Click Compiled HTML Format (*.chm) > Entire feature will be unavailable.
6. Click HTML > Entire feature will be unavailable.
7. In the Crystal Reports Setup dialog box, click Next > Next > Finish.
8. Repeat steps 2 through 4.
9. Click Compiled HTML Format (*.chm) > Entire Feature will be installed on local hard drive.
10. Click Next > Next to run the installation.

Modify registry subkey

WARNING:

The following resolution involves editing the registry. Using Registry Editor incorrectly can cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall the Windows operating system. Use Registry Editor at your own risk.

INFORMATION:

View the 'Changing Keys And Values' online Help topic in Registry Editor (Regedit.exe).

NOTE:

It is strongly advised that you make a backup copy of the registry files (System.dat and User.dat on Win9x computers) before you edit the registry.

1. Click Start > Run.
2. Type 'regedit' in the Run dialog box. Click OK. The Registry Editor appears.
3. Expand this registry sub key: HKey_Local_Machine | Software | Seagate Software | Crystal Reports | Help.
4. Expand the subkey that is named after your respective language code. For example, for English, the subkey is named 'En' and for French, the subkey is named 'Fr'.

NOTE:

5. If the registry subkey in step 4 is

' C:Program FilesSeagate SoftwareCrystal ReportsHelp<your language code>, then set the value for the 'Format' registry entry to '0x00000002 (2)',

else if it is

' C:Program FilesSeagate SoftwareCrystal ReportsHelp<your language code>HTML, then set the value for the 'Format' registry entry to '0x00000003 (3)'.

6. Exit the Registry Editor.

The Online Help is now available from either the Help menu or the F1 key.

See Also

For more information, please refer to Note 1213587.

The Online Help file (Crw.chm) uses certain web components from IE. Crystal Reports 8.5 was developed and released prior to the release of IE 6.0 and the Online Help does not correctly recognize this version of IE during the initial install.

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