Hour 23. Distributing Crystal Reports

Prior to this point, you've focused on learning how to create Crystal Reports. It's highly likely that you haven't spent all this time learning to create reports exclusively for your own consumption, but rather for other people's benefit as well. The inevitable question to be asked then is, "Once I'm done creating a report, how do I share it with others?" Fortunately, Crystal Decisions provides numerous methods of report distribution.

Whether the audience for viewing Crystal Reports is one or many, Crystal Decisions provides an appropriate distribution mechanism.

In this hour, the following will be covered:

• A review of Report Distribution Options

• Report distribution with the Report Application Server

• Unmanaged Crystal Enterprise Report Distribution

• Managed Crystal Enterprise Report Distribution

• Report distribution with the Report Designer Component