Chapter 24. Using InfoView

In this chapter

Installing InfoView 570

Using BusinessObjects InfoView 571

Customizing InfoView 585

Troubleshooting 592

Chapter 23, "Introduction to BusinessObjects Enterprise," provided an introduction to the BusinessObjects Enterprise infrastructure. Building on that, this chapter describes InfoView, a user web-based application for interacting with content published to BusinessObjects Enterprise.

From an architectural standpoint, InfoView is based on a published application programming interface (API) as described in Part VII of this book, "Customized Report DistributionUsing BusinessObjects Enterprise and Crystal Reports Server." This effectively means that the InfoView application is customizable and in fact, the source code for the applications ships with them.

Note

Prior versions of Crystal Enterprise included an application called Web Desktop or ePortfolio. Prior versions of BusinessObjects included a web-based application called InfoView. This is the successor to those versions and includes functionality from both Crystal Enterprise 10 Web Desktop and BusinessObjects 6 InfoView.