Things You Can Do with the Java Viewer

Some of the features in the Java Viewer that make your job easier include the capabilities to search the text of the report and to depict data contained in the report as a grid. In addition, the user of your JSP application is able to drill down from general data contained in the report to detailed reporting data by simply pointing and clicking the mouse.

Reports served up by the Crystal Enterprise Server and the Report Application Server also enable your JSP application to display a map as part of the Crystal report and enable the user to drill down to display a map in more or less detail than was originally displayed in the Crystal report.

Another useful feature is the capability for you to pick and choose elements of a Crystal report to display on the screen. Instead of displaying the entire report, your JSP application can show in the web page only pieces of the report that are relevant to your application. Let s say that you want to use in your application a graph based on data from a Crystal report. By using report parts , you can simply use the graph and nothing else from the Crystal report. The Report Part Viewer allows you to display reports showing only limited objects on the report. It allow allows Report Part Navigation, which allows a limited set of objects to act as hyperlinks to other limited object in other reports.

It is very common for users of your JSP application to need a report in a format that they can download and manipulate themselves . This usually requires you to write code that translates the report into the desired format. The Java Viewer classes already include this code for Word, Excel, and other popular file formats.